Notes: La Mulana is Trucy's first Pokemon. La Mulana gets her nickname from a adventure game with a cruel treasure that shows a picture of the main character in a skimpy swimsuit(the character is a guy).

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Thea- Milotic Female

Type: Water

Nature: Modest(+Sp. Atk/-Atk)

Highest stat IV- Hit Point

Experience Level: 41

Notes: Thea is one of the Pokemon that hatched from eggs from the Day Care. Trucy fed Thea(who was a Feebas at the time) alot of Dry Poffin to help her evolve into Milotic. Thea gets her name from a character on Phantasy Star 3.

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Poppy Leaf- Leafeon Female

Type: Grass

Nature: Gentle(+Sp. Def/-Def)

Highest stat IV- Speed

Experience Level: 41

Notes: Another Pokemon from Daycare, Poppy Leaf started out as a Eevee before. Trucy leveled her up in Eterna Forest, causing her to evolve into Leafeon. Poppy Leaf doesn't get her name from anyone in general, it just seemed appropriate for her.

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Sasami- Gardevoir Female

Type: Psychic

Nature: Mild(+Sp. Atk/-Def)

Highest stat IV- Hit Points

Experience Level: 40

Notes: Sasami was found on the way to Solaceon town when she was a Ralts, where Trucy caught her. Sasami gets her nickname from a character on Tenchi Muyo.

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Lunara- Absol Female

Type: Dark

Nature: Careful(+Sp. Def/-Sp. Atk)

Highest stat IV- Attack

Experience Level: 40

Notes: Lunara was received from the Day Care trip and has been trained mainly in speed. Lunara gets her name from a concept character that Trucy heard of, that was created by Step-chan.

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Homestar- Togekiss Male

Type: Normal/Flying*

Nature: Docile(No change)

Highest stat IV- Special Attack

Experience Level: 41

Notes: Homestar was another from one received from the Day Care trip, he was originally named Perseus, but decided on changing his name. Homestar is, of course, named after Homestar Runner.

*Come guys, I want to see some pure flying types!

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Kokoro- Lopunny Female

Type: Normal

Nature: Naughty(+Atk/-Sp. Def)

Highest stat IV- Speed

Experience Level: 40

Notes: Kokoro was yet another from the Day Care trip. She's had training mainly to be a physical sweeper. She gets her nickname from a character on the Dead or Alive fighting game series.

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Azusa- Clefairy Female

Type: Normal

Nature: Lax(+Def/-Sp. Def)

Highest stat IV- Special Attack

Experience Level: 18

Notes: Another from the Day Care, Azusa has only had alittle training so far. Azusa gets her name from a minor character in Ranma 1/2.

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Bella- Staraptor Female

Type: Normal/Flying

Nature: Quirky(No change)

Highest stat IV- Hit Points

Experience Level: 41

Notes: Bella is one of Trucy's earliest caught Pokemon. She gets her nickname from a character on Dragon Quest 5(Japanese version).

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Akane- Swablu Female

Type: Normal/Flying

Nature: Bold(+Def/-Atk)

Highest stat IV- Special Attack

Experience Level: 1

Notes: Newest addition to Team Trucy and another from the Day Care, she'll mainly be trained some before the Elite 4. Akane gets her name from Ranma's Fiance in Ranma 1/2.

Okay, that's it for tonight! I'll touch up on the other teams in future posts.

Notes: Kokoro is being training for the post game section. She is a Physical Attacker with heavy Physcial Attack training and a mix of Speed and Hit Point training as well. Kokoro's move set isn't complete yet.

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Azusa- Clefable Female

Type: Normal

Ability: Magic Guard(Protection from special based attacks)

Nature: Lax(+Def/-Sp. Def)

Highest stat IV- Special Attack

Experience Level: 30

HP: 105 Atk: 51 Def: 81 S. Atk: 72 S. Def: 89 Speed: 52

Moves: Ice Beam, Psychic, Magical Leaf, Wake Up Slap

Notes: Azusa is being trained as a Special Attacker for the post game areas. Her move set isn't complete yet.

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Bella- Staraptor Female

Type: Normal/Flying

Ability: Intimidate(Cuts Opponent's attack)

Nature: Quirky(No change)

Highest stat IV- Hit Points

Experience Level: 68

HP: 216 Atk: 209 Def: 112 S. Atk: 85 S. Def: 87 Speed: 191

Moves: Brave Bird, Aerial Ace, Close Combat, Return

Notes: Bella has helped out quite abit through Trucy's journey, she now helps in training Trucy's other Pokemon due to her great level of experience.

As for Pokemon Platinum, I've finished leveling up Team Pk Thunder(5 Pachirisu with the Pickup ability) to 91, they can now find the best items found through their ability.

Aside from doing the Pal Park in Platinum for a couple more days, I'm taking a fairly long break from playing from it. Mainly so I can get back to my playthrough of Dragon Quest 5 and starting a new file on Pokemon Leafgreen.

Also will try to write and submit some song parodies for Amiright.(I'm on vacation this week)

My teams(minus the Pachirisus) don't have a particular theme, but are usually named after favorite anime, cartoon and game characters.

Platinum E4 champions:

Lunara the Absol(She took on Cynthia's Spiritomb)

Poppy Leaf the Leafeon(She took on Cynthia's Milotic)

Homestar the Togekiss(He took on Cynthia's Lucario)

La Mulana the Infernape(She took on Cynthia's Roserade)

Thea the Milotic(She took on Cynthia's Garchomp)

Sasami the Gardevoir(She took on Cynthia's Togekiss)

My Togekiss, Gardevoir and Milotic have more obvious nicknames. Togekiss named after Homestar Runner, Gardevoir named after Sasami from Tenchi Muyo and Milotic is named after Thea from Phantasy Star 3(a Genesis RPG).

My Infernape was named after a computer game(I think, it have been an MSX game), which is a sort of side scrolling adventure. Although my memory of it was from watching a part of a walkthrough where you get a hidden treasure, which is more of a cruel parody. I would explain it, but I don't know if you want to know.

My Absol, wasn't named after anyone from a series or game, but was named after a concept character I created before.

My Leafeon, well, I had a problem thinking of a good name for it. Finally decided on Poppy Leaf, thought it was cute and funny(drug reference).

My Pearl E4 champions:

Step-chan the Infernape(I picked Chimchar in both games)Kyra the ChimechoJun the FloatzelNene the RoseradeIbuki the SudowoodoElgala the Luxray

Infernape's nickname is really obvious.

My Chimecho was named after Kyra from Phantasy Star 4(an excellent Genesis RPG).

My Floatzel, I don't remember exactly who, but I named her after someone from an anime series.

My Roserade was named after Nene from Bubblegum Crisis(the original series not newer one).

Damn, it's been a while since I've played Pokemon. I'd never nickname them, a habit that I started in Red + Blue versions, because you'd have to check out their stats to see what pokemon they actually were. .

I would make sure my party had all around the same level, which was harder to do around the beginning of the game, where I would just train my starter Pokemon. My philosophy was: If I have a level 20, and my opponent has 6 level 10s, I'll beat him. However, as the game progressed, I would start training all of my Pokemon.

I made sure the Pokemon I had with me weren't all the same time. I balanced it.

My party needed to have all of the HMs in it, so that I would never get stuck.

I would always train the rarer Pokemon, such as ones that you can only get once in a game,

The last Pokemon game that I played was Sapphire, and that was a while ago. Since then, I haven't played, but I would always keep a high-leveled Shedinja with me. He only has 1hp, but only Super-Effective moves can actually hurt him. He's extremely helpful in certain Elite 4 battles.

You make concept characters? Awesome! I've actually done some manga on Microsoft Paint, but I've yet to reach my potential.

Back to Pokemon, those are some really cool teams. I find it funny that I named an Exploud after Soundgarden lead vocalist Chris Cornell. Hey, it fits well!

I've made concept characters for RPG ideas I have. Whenever I've done an drawing or sketching, it's just been on paper. I couldn't do it easily on a computer.

The Pearl team I had chosen had a few close calls in the E4. Mainly Luxray vs Brongzong(Earthquake, Luxray was left with alittle over 30 HP) and Floatzel vs. Garchomp(Which is funny, because Floatzels have a higher speed base stat than Garchomp, but it still out sped it. Floatzel barely survived Earthquake and Garchomp survived the Ice Beam, but it also froze it and Cynthia didn't use a Full Restore).

Damn, it's been a while since I've played Pokemon. I'd never nickname them, a habit that I started in Red + Blue versions, because you'd have to check out their stats to see what pokemon they actually were. .

I would make sure my party had all around the same level, which was harder to do around the beginning of the game, where I would just train my starter Pokemon. My philosophy was: If I have a level 20, and my opponent has 6 level 10s, I'll beat him. However, as the game progressed, I would start training all of my Pokemon.

I made sure the Pokemon I had with me weren't all the same time. I balanced it.

My party needed to have all of the HMs in it, so that I would never get stuck.

I would always train the rarer Pokemon, such as ones that you can only get once in a game,

The last Pokemon game that I played was Sapphire, and that was a while ago. Since then, I haven't played, but I would always keep a high-leveled Shedinja with me. He only has 1hp, but only Super-Effective moves can actually hurt him. He's extremely helpful in certain Elite 4 battles.

Well, that's my two-cents, lol.

I didn't start nicknaming my Pokemon until 3rd and 4th Gen. Now you can tell what's what in the games. For me, depending on what I plan on training would depend on how much gets trained early on. Early on during my current playthrough of Leafgreen, I was mainly using my starter(Charmander), Pikachu and Weedle line(to deal with Misty's Starmie, it's weak to Twinneedle due to it's Psychic typing, I do the same thing if I pick Squirtle, I'm not a fan of the Bellsprout line).

Now my main team is Charizard, Raichu, Sandslash, Clefable, Persian and Vaporeon.

In the 3rd gen remakes and 4th gen games, they make decent ingame Psychic counters.

Shadow Ball 3rd gen, Physical Ghost and Dark attacks 4th gen... Especially Faint Attack, if you have a Meowth/Persian with a Technician ability(Which boosts the moves with a 60 base attack rating or lower by 50%).

I usually use Flareon(But I picked Charmander this time, so no need for it) as a sort of Psychic counter 3rd gen, since it could also learn Shadow Ball(Ghost was physical before Physical/Special split), it's slower than most Psychics, but it has better Sp. Def than Persian in case it takes a hit first. Persian, though has alot speed behind it, so it can compensate for weaker durability as well.

One thing I will say, I've always prefered Squirtle(I didn't want to raise a Gyarados) and missed having a water type until I got an Eevee in Celadon and evolved into a Vaporeon.

I'm going to breed an E4 rematch team. So far the planned members are:

Xatu- Never had a Xatu before, want to know if I'll like it enough for a team slot on HG/SS playthroughs next year.Misdreavus- My favorite ghost type, have trained one on and off, but never trained one for the E4.Furret- I've trained these before, one of my favorites. Plan on getting an Adamant one.Flareon- Missed having one on my team through my normal playthrough.

That's all I have at the moment, any suggestions for the remaining two?

I only have Leafgreen, so it will have to be from what I can get on that version.

Edit: The only other rule I have is that it can't be any of the types that I already have on team.(Flying, Psychic, Ghost, Normal and Fire are already taken)

Why not Lapras and Machoke? I would say Machamp, but you have to trade it to another game pak to evolve it....

I remember I would buy 2 seperate game paks, and use my brother's GBC and my own using a link cable and get all 3 starters, and also, I would evolve the original 4 Pokemon that needed to be traded to evolve: Haunter>Gengar, Machoke>Machamp, Geodude>Golem, Kadabra>Alakazam.

Idk, just thought I'd share that. Btw, have either of your guys heard of Runescape?

I remember I would buy 2 seperate game paks, and use my brother's GBC and my own using a link cable and get all 3 starters, and also, I would evolve the original 4 Pokemon that needed to be traded to evolve: Haunter>Gengar, Machoke>Machamp, Geodude>Golem, Kadabra>Alakazam.

Idk, just thought I'd share that. Btw, have either of your guys heard of Runescape?

I don't have both game paks now.(I used to own both)

I've seen others play Runescape, but never played it myself. Not much into PC gaming.

Yep, due to the flashing red and blue lights that happen in the episode.

Funny thing is, Porygon got the blame even though it was actually caused by Pikachu.(I watched a clip of the flashing scene)

There are some others too.(the vacation episode for example with James in the suit that made him look like a girl for the swimsuit competition), that were previously not shown until they did some heavy editting)

Yep, due to the flashing red and blue lights that happen in the episode.

Funny thing is, Porygon got the blame even though it was actually caused by Pikachu.(I watched a clip of the flashing scene)

There are some others too.(the vacation episode for example with James in the suit that made him look like a girl for the swimsuit competition), that were previously not shown until they did some heavy editting)

Yeah, those lights could have caused seizures... JAMES IN A SWIMSUIT?! That is so Shuichi Shindou. (That's my term for gay/homo, named after a character from the yaoi/homo anime Gravitation, which I have never watched, but I love the soundtrack.)

1. A shiny will pop up when you have no Pokeballs.2. A shiny will pop up that knows Selfdestruct, Explosion, Roar, Whirlwind, etc.3. A shiny will pop up in the Safari zone, and due to the setup of the place....(They run away)

Gave ya Treat too.

I haven't had a shiny since Pokemon Ruby, which was a Sentret I was hatching.(Which I noticed looked alittle different, too bad I didn't keep the game, could've sent it over to Pearl and have an actual shiny)

The AI did some stupid things against my Misdreavus(Earthquake won't hit levitators 3rd gen, there was no Mold Breaker ability).

The main problem I had with Lance was his Dragonite Thunderbolting my Lapras(who wasn't at full health) causing me to switch out so I could revive her. Other than that I had a minor faux pas with Bruno.(I thought he would use a Fighting type first, nope.... It was Steelix)

I know they changed the Effort Value system when they got to the 3rd generation.

Which is 510 points total, 255 max in one stat.

Originally, it was 65,535 points per stat. They called it stat experience at that time.

The biggest difference was the equation.

With the present EV system, 4 points gives you one point in a stat.

The original stat experience system allowed you to get 64 points in each stat total, the 65,535 points were part of an equation that resulted in that. You were able to max every stat in the game. This was good ingame, but very unbalanced in the competitive category.

I've heard about G/S/C losing their save power due to battery drainage. That hasn't happened to mine, though.

Yeah, I don't know if it was like that when he got it though.(It is a used game)

Funny thing, I have NES RPGs(Dragon Warrior series and Final Fantasy) and Sega RPGs(Phantasy Star series) that, the last time I played, still saved.(This was over a few years ago for a few of them when I played them... The NES games were out in the early 1990s in the US)

With Gold and Silver, I think the internal batteries drained more quickly due to the internal clock taking a decent amount to run.

Yeah, I don't know if it was like that when he got it though.(It is a used game)

Funny thing, I have NES RPGs(Dragon Warrior series and Final Fantasy) and Sega RPGs(Phantasy Star series) that, the last time I played, still saved.(This was over a few years ago for a few of them when I played them... The NES games were out in the early 1990s in the US)

With Gold and Silver, I think the internal batteries drained more quickly due to the internal clock taking a decent amount to run.

Yeah, G/S/C was the first to use the internal clock. I got mine used at a pawn shop for 8 dollars. If worst comes to worst and the battery dies, I have the emulated copy of it on my PC :)

The only thing I'm torn on is the starter, either Torchic or Mudkip. Whichever I pick will affect my team setup alittle. I will have an Espeon and Bellossom on the team though.(What I love about Ruby and Sapphire, You don't have to beat the game to trade from Firered and Leafgreen)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4wHbPO_01Y

I found this while I was looking around on google, a video link from Youtube of fan made Pokemon.(Some are actually very good)

Let's see... Numel family, Torkoal(I don't really care for either, although it's not about abilities and power so much). I think Vulpix is in the Safari zone, but that would take awhile to get to.

I can trade over other fire types. Although I'm already going to be doing Eevee trades(and some others to send items over), so I won't really feel like doing more than that, other than trading Bellossom over to Leafgreen to relearn Magical Leaf.(And a trade to get the Sun Stone that was on the current file that I will be saving over)

Also turns out that the berry glitch was fixed by the previous owner of the game.(I checked)

If Fire starter:

Torchic lineMilotic(Azumarill early on to fill the spot for)EspeonBellossomAltaria(?)Last part of the main team is unknown.

If Water starter:

Mudkip lineEspeonBellossomAltaria(?)Last two members unknown.

The Water starter line up would be abit harder to fill. Still have to see what I feel like choosing tommorrow.

There will be a few others that will be trained early on to help out when need be as well.

As for the sixth member of my final team, I'm still not completey decided.

Here are some that I've been thinking about:

Mawile- My favorite Steel type, Mawile's alittle hard to use.Delcatty- My favorite Hoenn Normal type, like Mawile it's more challenging to use in battle.Aron- I've never train one before.Plusle- The only new Hoenn Electric type I actually like alot.Minun- Alittle more defensive than Plusle stat wise, I like it alittle.

Delcatty I don't have to breed for, as I have a decent nature on the Skitty I caught. The others I will(except maybe Plusle or Minun since I'm not where I can catch one yet).

As for the sixth member of my final team, I'm still not completey decided.

Here are some that I've been thinking about:

Mawile- My favorite Steel type, Mawile's alittle hard to use.Delcatty- My favorite Hoenn Normal type, like Mawile it's more challenging to use in battle.Aron- I've never train one before.Plusle- The only new Hoenn Electric type I actually like alot.Minun- Alittle more defensive than Plusle stat wise, I like it alittle.

Delcatty I don't have to breed for, as I have a decent nature on the Skitty I caught. The others I will(except maybe Plusle or Minun since I'm not where I can catch one yet).

Let me know if you want a particular one out of these. :)

Mawile! That was my first shiny! And congrats on beating the first 2 gym leaders.

On another note: I'm having a problem with figuring out what type of moves Mawile should have for the end of the game, other than Sword Dance(Via my Leafgreen file). It's a shame it can't learn Shadow Ball(since all Ghost moves are Physical 3rd gen).

I also need to see if any of my special based Pokemon have Hidden Power Electric, the team lacks Electric moves.(Not that they are majorly needed, only Water/Flying types are applied to this problem)

Starmie is alittle above average, it's base stat for Special Attack is 100 and it's Speed base stat is 115. It makes for a decent special sweeper, mainly in game. Starmie's main weakness is it's Hit Point, which is merely 60. Both it's Defensive stats are 85. Attack is 75.

Taking into account, early fully evolved Pokemon like Raticate and Furret have lower base stat totals.

The Azumarill I've trained is to fill my slot for a water type until I get a Feebas during the mid-point in the game(that's going to be fun to search for, only 6 tiles in the first raining route have them, and it's dependent on the trendy phrase).

It took me awhile to find a female with Huge Power(The reason for getting a female is because Flannery's last Pokemon, Torkoal, has Attract. This is just like Whitney's Miltank). The Marrill also has an nature that drops it's Attack by 10%.

As for your Starmie, you could have had one with lower IVs or a nature drops it's Special Attack by 10%. Do you remember it's nature?

In the 1st and 2nd gen, all your stats got boosted from battling Pokemon(I think I mentioned before), so you were able to get over 60+ points in every stat by level 100.(As long as you were diligent about it, instead of overusing Rare Candies, but those weren't that easy to get anyway) This made even underpowered Pokemon like Wigglytuff, Dunsparce and Farfetch'd fairly usable ingame.

By 3rd Gen, you could only max two of your stats in Effort Values.

Back to the game:

I'm about to level up for the 5th gym. This is easily my least favorite Gym Leader to battle. I'll get them up to level 31, that should be decent enough.

The only real reason I wonder is because of how Ruby and Sapphire set up the criminal teams.

Ruby version, Magma are the criminals while Aqua helps you out. In Sapphire the roles are reverse.

Emerald has you fighting both teams. If they keep closer to Ruby and Sapphire, I hope they ad more battles with the criminal team you fight against. Oh course, they'll probably also add the Battle Frontier into the remakes.

Am reporting from the library, due to some rogue software that infected my computer.(Yet again....) >:(

I have beaten all the gyms now, went through Victory Road and will be training for the Elite 4 on Ruby.

CRAPOLA! Man, you seem to have a lot of computer trouble.

When I first played through Ruby, it took so long to get through the boulder-pushing puzzle in one of the caves that I just decided to take a break from the boulder puzzle and train some more. By the time I fought the Champion, my Blaziken was almost Level 100!

Okay, trying to catch Rayquaza is a major pain in the rear. Mainly thanks to Rest and Outrage, it doesn't help that my team is under level 60.

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I'm going to train up the Farfetch'd I have in Leafgreen and send it over to Ruby. It's already above 80 and I think it has False Swipe. If not I'll have it relearn it.(I just hate the thought of going through the tower again to get to him)

I reset many times though, so I still worked for it(I probably should have saved the Master Ball for him instead of Latios)... I was about to send over Farfetch'd(Level 80, False Swiper) to try and help.

This reminds me of how I caught Heatran in Platinum. I was mainly using Dusk Balls, but would occasionally chuck a different ball at it for laughs. When I threw a Luxury Ball(which is only as effective as a Basic Pokeball), it caught her.

You can catch them at full health, it's just with most Legendaries the odds are extremely low to get that lucky.(I think Rayquaza's odds with Ultra Balls at 1 HP and Sleep/Freeze are alittle under 10%)

I reset many times though, so I still worked for it(I probably should have saved the Master Ball for him instead of Latios)... I was about to send over Farfetch'd(Level 80, False Swiper) to try and help.

This reminds me of how I caught Heatran in Platinum. I was mainly using Dusk Balls, but would occasionally chuck a different ball at it for laughs. When I threw a Luxury Ball(which is only as effective as a Basic Pokeball), it caught her.

You can catch them at full health, it's just with most Legendaries the odds are extremely low to get that lucky.(I think Rayquaza's odds with Ultra Balls at 1 HP and Sleep/Freeze are alittle under 10%)

WHOA. Kinda reminds me of how I beat Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon. I warped Marth (main hero with legendary sword effective against final boss) into the room with the final boss using a Warp staff, used another Warp staff to warp a different character onto a save point, saved, then kept attacking/restarting from save until I got a critical hit. The critical hit rate was about 4%, and if I didn't get one, the boss would own Marth with a one hit kill. Call it cheap, but it worked, and I didn't have to fight the rest of the enemies!

In my case, all of the previous tries I did wear down it's HP(quite abit at times), although that ended up being for nothing with it's Rest move. Doesn't help that it has Outrage either(Which will confuse it after 2 to 3 rounds, causing a chance that it will hurt itself).

In my case, all of the previous tries I did wear down it's HP(quite abit at times), although that ended up being for nothing with it's Rest move. Doesn't help that it has Outrage either(Which will confuse it after 2 to 3 rounds, causing a chance that it will hurt itself).

That they are. I'm lucky I had gotten a Beldum from my Nephew, otherwise I would have had to wait for a swarm of them. And with them have the same low catch rate as most legendaries and only having a recoil damage move... Ugh, that would have been irritating.

The ones I was the luckiest with were the Regi trio. I didn't have to reset on any of them, although I was close to reseting with Registeel(Mostly due to it getting close to running out of moves and doing the dreaded Struggle).

Here are the legendaries I find to be the most annoying to catch:

Mewtwo: Mainly because of Recover.Rayquaza: Rest and Outrage, enough said.Giratina: Being part ghost type means "no can be hit by False Swipe without Foresight"(Can any Pokemon can have both in their set at the same time?).Roaming Pokemon: Less of a pain in a DPPt, since you have the tracking Poketch that you can view while trying to find them in the route you keep going into. But still...

That they are. I'm lucky I had gotten a Beldum from my Nephew, otherwise I would have had to wait for a swarm of them. And with them have the same low catch rate as most legendaries and only having a recoil damage move... Ugh, that would have been irritating.

The ones I was the luckiest with were the Regi trio. I didn't have to reset on any of them, although I was close to reseting with Registeel(Mostly due to it getting close to running out of moves and doing the dreaded Struggle).

Here are the legendaries I find to be the most annoying to catch:

Mewtwo: Mainly because of Recover.Rayquaza: Rest and Outrage, enough said.Giratina: Being part ghost type means "no can be hit by False Swipe without Foresight"(Can any Pokemon can have both in their set at the same time?).Roaming Pokemon: Less of a pain in a DPPt, since you have the tracking Poketch that you can view while trying to find them in the route you keep going into. But still...

Your nephew goes by Gohanzo on InThe00s, right? Yeah, Giratina is a pain. Call it cheap, but I used an Action Replay code device to get unlimited Master Balls.

I have used Cheat devices in the first 3 gens. 1st two were for rare Pokemon, the 3rd for Rare Candies(I was calculating IVs to check for Hidden Power types).

I don't have an Action Replay for the DS though, although I don't mind in that regard.

That's cool. I have one for both GBA and DS. I mainly used it to get Mew, Celebi, Jirachi, Deoxys, Darkrai, Shaymin, Arceus, and Manaphy/Phione. I also used it to get trade-evolution Pokemon, since I don't have 2 DSes.

Kanto: Squirtle(This is the only region, mainly counting the remakes, that I've went through with each of the starters)Johto: Chikorita(Totodile second most likely to be picked)Hoenn: Mudkip(Torchic second most likely to be picked)Sinnoh: Chimchar(Chimchar barely edged out ahead of the others)

I went through Ruby with the Torchic line this time, I can see how some do like it.

I feel like rambling alittle more, this is mainly well known stuff...

In Kanto, Bulbasaur and Squirtle are easier early game. Bulbasaur due to the first of three gyms and some trainers, Squirtle due to some of the trainers like Bulba, plus some early trainers with fire types. Charmander is the hardest, although third gen it at least has some attacks that are strong against rock types.(I had to use Pikachu's Growl move until it got KO'd before I had Charmander fight Onix)

To me, Kanto is the main area where it's harder to go through certain early points without a Water type, this is mainly a problem with rock and fire types(If you have a grass type early on though, that cuts down some of the issues). You can get Magikarp early on and Eevee mid game, but not much else until you can get better rods. I hate the fact that the Old Rod only catches Magikarp in the originals and remakes, it's a shame the Good Rod isn't available by at least Lavendar or Celadon.(The fact that you can get the Super Rod before the Good Rod is crazy)

It's easier to get some water types early on in both Johto and Sinnoh, so with me it the water starter isn't as important.(unless I want to go through the game with it) This mainly due to the Old Rod catching more than just Magikarp(I know it's like that in Johto, I don't remember it's the same in Sinnoh, I'll to check)

Hoenn is somewhere between Kanto and Johto for difficulty when not having a water type, but you can at least get a few early on.

I've caught Regigigas on Platinum(Won't even worry about the one on Pearl for awhile). I like have it has a total of 80 PPs added up by all of it's moves(Foresight has 40), still took me around 50+ Dusk Balls to catch it. The fact that it's at level one makes it even easier in the maintenance department.

I've caught Regigigas on Platinum(Won't even worry about the one on Pearl for awhile). I like have it has a total of 80 PPs added up by all of it's moves(Foresight has 40), still took me around 50+ Dusk Balls to catch it. The fact that it's at level one makes it even easier in the maintenance department.

Congratulations. BTW, you should pick up a free Jirachi at GameStop. They're doing a free Jirachi distribution.

Congratulations. BTW, you should pick up a free Jirachi at GameStop. They're doing a free Jirachi distribution.

For how long are they doing this?

I've seen people on boards(they're a minority though) that think Dusk Balls broken, why I don't know. While they are twice as strong as Ultra Balls at night and in caves, towers, etc., that still doesn't make that much of a difference against Pokemon with a catch rate of 3.

Okay, I got it on both of my games at the Gamestop near me today.(Also bought some stylus pens and a PS2 game in replacement of the original that was stolen over 3 years ago)

Turns out that they don't care if you get it on more than one game cartidge. That will make it easier tommorrow, as that means I don't have to stop by Washington Square when I get my Black Market Flowers CD.(Although I might drop by some other places)

1. Make sure they are obtainable in game. While I don't mind doing occasional trades, I kinda want to keep from doing them more than once or twice.(Well, if I pick Politoed, I will have to trade. But other than that, I kinda want to keep from doing it) This is also going by version exclusives for Heartgold.

2. It must be the fully evolved form of that family, while I'll catch the earlier form to train and evolve. It doesn't matter if it's a somewhat underpowered Pokemon, I just want to be able to evolve it to it's final form.

3. No two of the same type. If it's a dual type and it's secondary type matches another's primary type, I won't mind however.

1. Make sure they are obtainable in game. While I don't mind doing occasional trades, I kinda want to keep from doing them more than once or twice.(Well, if I pick Politoed, I will have to trade. But other than that, I kinda want to keep from doing it) This is also going by version exclusives for Heartgold.

2. It must be the fully evolved form of that family, while I'll catch the earlier form to train and evolve. It doesn't matter if it's a somewhat underpowered Pokemon, I just want to be able to evolve it to it's final form.

3. No two of the same type. If it's a dual type and it's secondary type matches another's primary type, I won't mind however.

I already have a water type(Poliwag line), so I'll need a different type. ;) (Sorry about that, I should have had the list up beforehand, Karma for the extra thought, as well as one for tommorrow with your next pic)

I already have a water type(Poliwag line), so I'll need a different type. ;) (Sorry about that, I should have had the list up beforehand, Karma for the extra thought, as well as one for tommorrow with your next pic)

I started my game, I'm not very far right now though, but I am up to the point where I got my first set of Pokeballs. I just need to wait until night to get one of the main members.

Right now the team is:

Marisa- Chikorita (Female)Bashful Nature

Alena- Sentret (Female)Hardy Nature

Chamoro- Caterpie (Male)Quiet Nature

The Sentret and Caterpie in my team(Along with the Mareep I'll get here later and a couple of other Pokemon) are just there to help fill in as temporary battlers, they will be become scouting types later on.

I ran into a shiny Hoothoot when I had no Pokeballs(and while on my temp file at that).

:( >:(

Reminds me of when I met a shiny Ratatta when I had no Pokemon at all. Yes, I used the Action Replay code "Walk Through Walls" to get past the part in LeafGreen where Oak stops you, and had a ?????????? and no Pokeballs. Even more ironically, I got my revenge in Pearl when I ran into a shiny Raticate without Action Replay. Caught it.

Reminds me of when I met a shiny Ratatta when I had no Pokemon at all. Yes, I used the Action Replay code "Walk Through Walls" to get past the part in LeafGreen where Oak stops you, and had a ?????????? and no Pokeballs. Even more ironically, I got my revenge in Pearl when I ran into a shiny Raticate without Action Replay. Caught it.

Wow, that had to have been weird. I've never used those types of codes on the previous games to do that. :o

The most I ever did was hack in pokemon 1st and 2nd gen. The second most was hacking rare candies.

I'm currently in the National Park. Seems to be nothing but Hoothoot around here. And a few good trainers. My team is Croconaw, Weepinbell, Machop, Ponyta, Onix, and Flaaffy. I'll probably axe Onix for Graveler as soon as I get my Geodude from the Day-Care.

I'm at Goldenrod, I will be trading for the Slugma and Larvitar here pretty quick. I'll have to moderate the amount of eggs I hatch, Slugma's gender I'm not concerned with, but I want a female Larvitar.(Mainly because of Whitney's gym)

Caught an Aipom with Pickup on the first try, named her Pearl. Also caught a Ditto, it has Quick Powder on it.

Did the bug catching Contest today. I got first place as well. I was aiming at getting a Scyther for False Swipe, but I ran into a Shiny Caterpie and caught it. I'm going to send it over to Platinum(I'll nickname before I do) and train it as a possible team member for the E4 rematch.

I'm further behind than you are. I beat Jasmine today. Machoke, Feraligatr, Ponyta, and Graveler put her down for the count in no time. Heading after Chuck once my Pokemon are stronger. I'm tempted to train a Pidgeot, but that'll take a LOOOOOONG time.

I'm further behind than you are. I beat Jasmine today. Machoke, Feraligatr, Ponyta, and Graveler put her down for the count in no time. Heading after Chuck once my Pokemon are stronger. I'm tempted to train a Pidgeot, but that'll take a LOOOOOONG time.

I fought Chuck before going back with the Secretpotion. So we both have 5 badges, unless you took a detour to Mahogany and the Lake of Rage.(Which is easily doable)

I fought Chuck before going back with the Secretpotion. So we both have 5 badges, unless you took a detour to Mahogany and the Lake of Rage.(Which is easily doable)

I certainly did. Red Gyrados is awesome. Believe it or not, by bro got a gold Magikarp on Emerald, which is now a red Gyrados. My shinies are Gyrados (SoulSilver), Mawile (Ruby), and Raticate (Pearl). BTW, I love the Kanye West thing you posted many pages ago.

I remember that. Ol' Kanye started a new meme with that rude crap he did to Taylor Swift on the awards. I seen one someone do one of him interrupting Leonadis(Movie: 300), which results in him being kicked into the pit.

I've been wanting to do a meme of something Kurt Cobain said during a concert, but I haven't had a good opportunity yet. :D

I sent over my level 60 Scyther from Platinum, which has False Swipe. Sent over a few TMs as well and a male Marril with Aqua Jet.

Sent the Shiny Caterpie I got in the Bug Catching Contest over to Platinum, since I already have a Butterfree in my game.

You can win them in the Bug catching contest, although my guide doesn't say that(it lists Sun Stone), although this is Prima. They usually aren't super thorough.(Serebii's site lists it as a prize, I'll get a better look at it and get back to you)

One is available in Kanto, showing Bill's grandfather an Oddish.(But this is pretty late ingame)

The sooner one you can probably get one is from someone on route 34(Looks her up), it's Picknicker Gina a call from the Pokegear. This is probably the quickest one, but it's up to fate when that happens. I'll check to see when there is a high chance of this happening.

You can also get them from the Pokeathlon on certain days, but you have to build up the points for them.

I'm torn on my Fire and Electric choices, and I'm not sure whether I want a decent Fighting type or an excellent Psychic type. I think I do remember something called "The Mudkip Collection" that had Mudkip firin his lazor. When I get my dial-up replaced with AbleCable hi-speed internet this Monday, I'll check it out.

Here's my progress: I beat Chuck (not too hard, even without a Psychic or Flying type, but then again, I took detours and beat Pryce and Jasmine). Now I'm in the Radio Tower fending off Team Rocket. I'm also doing the EXP-switch method of training here for Magby and Pidgey. (In case that's not understandable lingo I made up, I send out the weak one, switch him in for a strong one, and they both gain EXP.)

I'm kinda hoping my Meganium or Politoed has Hidden Power Electric, I haven't yet went to get it to find out.(Can't until the lake floods again)

As a Slugma, Mr. Magoo didn't do too bad in Pryce's gym, a far cry from the battle with Jasmine. Although I got alittle lucky with his Piloswine(I had Amnesia'd Slugma a couple times while up against Dewgong anyway, thank goodness for it's lack of water attacks in it's set).

I'll taking care of some odds and ends now before I continue on in the game.

While I'm still alittle while off from doing my Soulsilver playthrough, I have 4 of the main ones in mind, plus another for early on.

Meganium(I'll alittle stubborn this way)EspeonAmpharosAzumarillFurret(Early member until I fill out my team more)

I'm still deciding on two for the final slot.

I'm going to pick between two of these:

Miltank- I've never trained one before, the Scrappy ability is tempting and I can get it the element punches if I want.

Jynx- Another I've thought about, the only thing about this choice is I'll have two psychic typings(Although Jynx's primary type is Ice). I could put it in place of Espeon, but I'd have to wait alittle while before getting to Jynx.(Unless I trade one over, but that means breeding would have to come into play)

Ninetails- This one is almost garanteed, since I'll usually need a Fire type. Will probably want to breed it through.

Rapidash- Another that'd I had to trade for.(Since it pops up after the 8th badge) But it's still up in the air for a slot.

Flareon- If I put Jynx in, I could train my favorite Kanto eeveelution.

Gligar- Gliscor is one of my favorite Ground types, but I'd have to trade a Gligar over(They're HG exclusive).

Noctowl- I've toyed with this idea for awhile.

Hitmonchan- Kinda of a late one as well, but it learns all the element punches.

Wait a sec, don't you have to have the National Pokedex to evolve Aipom? (Since Ambipom is from Sinnoh.)

I've reached the Safari Zone and evolved Magby into Magmar.

Nope, they added in the evolutions of Aipom, Piloswine, Lickitung, Yanma... I think that's all of them, I don't think Bonsly and Mime Jr are in it the Johto dex. Since they're evolutions are based on learning a certain move, I guess they felt it made more sense to do that. Probably due to the fact it looked stupid in Firered/Leafgreen that certain happiness evolutions would cancel out due to the lack of the national dex.

Also, just evolved Aipom, put her back into the Daycare for maintenance free leveling.

I've also played around calling a trainer for rematches, it turns out that you can pretty much keeping calling them for rematches alot. I leveled up My Politoed and Meganium on Hiker Anthony(Route 33). Everytime I called him, it was a battle. Although he will only do this on Friday evenings.

You know the thing that sucks about battles with LV. 50 as the limit? No Dragonite or Tyranitar, since the evolve at Level 55. You could use an AR code, but all AR codes are blocked in the Battle Tower. Well, at least in Pearl.

You know the thing that sucks about battles with LV. 50 as the limit? No Dragonite or Tyranitar, since the evolve at Level 55. You could use an AR code, but all AR codes are blocked in the Battle Tower. Well, at least in Pearl.

The battle tower like the battle frontier, or the like the one where you can play against someone else with another DS?

Magcargo isn't too bad, it's just raising it's prevo that's the problem(Low base stats in both defense types). Still, he's definetly the slowest member on my team. I did do alittle EV training in Sp. Attack(before fighting Pryce) with him while he was a Slugma.(Probably around 80 effort points or so) Just to give him alittle extra oomph.

The only other big downside to Magcargo is it's quad-weaknesses to water and ground. I also would have loved for it to learn Power Gem too.(Ancient Power is nice, but I would love to have a special based Rock attack with more PP)

I know I won't have Tyrranitar until Kanto, but Pupitar will be fine in the E4, especially since it learned Earthquake.

My team was definetly underpowered early on. I'll give my opinion on them in my next post.

Espeon, that's one of my favorite psychic types, as well as one of my favorite eeveelutions.

I definetly recommend teaching it Shadow Ball, unless you're conserving the TM.(Don't you hate the limited amounts of some TMs?) But if you have a male Espeon, it'll be less of an issue.

For my Soulsilver playthrough, I'm also wandering if I should pick a different water type. Although I could still train an Azumarill, it's more of an issue with certain HMs that are required in certain areas. So it's just an issue about team flexibility.

Although I do have an Aqua Jet bred Marill in Platinum as well, which I'll be training.(So even if I change to a different water type in Soulsilver, I'll still be training one in Platinum)

Edit: Due to my reconsidering, the situation now looks like this:

MeganiumEspeon or JynxAmpharosAzumarill or another water type.Furret(Early member until I fill out my team more)Miltank, Gligar, Noctowl or HitmonchanNinetails, Rapidash or Flareon

LOL, that pic reminds me of the "DO NOT PRESS B!" videos on YouTube, especially the one with Human Kirlia.

Azumarill? Forgive me, but isn't Azumarill one of the worst water types ever? Well, I remember reading in the strategy guide that on a scale of one to four, none of its stats exceeded 2. You could EV train it, though. My Eevee is at level 20 now, I'll probably make it an Espeon today. Espeon has great speed and special attack, as I learned from getting beaten repeatedly by one in Pokemon Colloseum's Orre Colloseum Level 100 Single Battle.

LOL, that pic reminds me of the "DO NOT PRESS B!" videos on YouTube, especially the one with Human Kirlia.

Azumarill? Forgive me, but isn't Azumarill one of the worst water types ever? Well, I remember reading in the strategy guide that on a scale of one to four, none of its stats exceeded 2. You could EV train it, though. My Eevee is at level 20 now, I'll probably make it an Espeon today. Espeon has great speed and special attack, as I learned from getting beaten repeatedly by one in Pokemon Colloseum's Orre Colloseum Level 100 Single Battle.

I remember you listed Azumarill at first for my Heartgold playthrough.(But I already picked a water type at that time) So I said I would train one in Soulsilver, although required HMs in different areas are making me think about whether I should train one or choose another.

My strategy guide uses those dots to rate their stats as well, except that the ratings go up to 6. But, you can't go by those heavily, as they aren't 100% accurate. For instance, all the eeveelutions that are listed don't have the same amount of point values. Only Espeon and Jolteon have a 6(Espeon in sp. attack, Jolteon in speed), but Flareon, Vaporeon and Umbreon don't have any above 5.(Flareon should have a 6 in attack, Vaporeon a 6 in hit points and Umbreon a 6 in sp. defense)

As you probably remember, the Azurill/Marill/Azumarill line has two abilities.

Those are:

Thick Fat and Huge Power.

Huge Power is Azumarill's saving grace in the offensive department, as it automatically doubles it's physical attack stat. This helped out the Azurill line alittle third gen, but made it pretty good fourth gen, as it can learn physical water attacks like Waterfall. But it's still not fast, so bred moves like Aqua Jet are helpful for getting in first attacks.

I remember you listed Azumarill at first for my Heartgold playthrough.(But I already picked a water type at that time) So I said I would train one in Soulsilver, although required HMs in different areas are making me think about whether I should train one or choose another.

My strategy guide uses those dots to rate their stats as well, except that the ratings go up to 6. But, you can't go by those heavily, as they aren't 100% accurate. For instance, all the eeveelutions that are listed don't have the same amount of point values. Only Espeon and Jolteon have a 6(Espeon in sp. attack, Jolteon in speed), but Flareon, Vaporeon and Umbreon don't have any above 5.(Flareon should have a 6 in attack, Vaporeon a 6 in hit points and Umbreon a 6 in sp. defense)

As you probably remember, the Azurill/Marill/Azumarill line has two abilities.

Those are:

Thick Fat and Huge Power.

Huge Power is Azumarill's saving grace in the offensive department, as it automatically doubles it's physical attack stat. This helped out the Azurill line alittle third gen, but made it pretty good fourth gen, as it can learn physical water attacks like Waterfall. But it's still not fast, so bred moves like Aqua Jet are helpful for getting in first attacks.

For me, teaching Shadow Ball is no big deal. I have around 25 or more that were sent from third gen. To bad I don't have anyone that can really benefit from Shadow Ball(Crobat and I think the Larvitar line can learn it, but they both learn Dark attacks, making it pointless)

SPOILER ALERT!!!!

You know you can catch Kyogre after you beat Red, right? (For me it would be Groudon.)

I believe so, although I'm not sure if you have to talk to someone after beating Red to trigger it.

After checking out Serebii, I added to the water type options for Soulsilver's playthrough.

MeganiumEspeon or JynxAmpharosAzumarill, Starmie, Vaporeon, Mantine, Lanturn or Gastrodon*Furret(Early member until I fill out my team more)Miltank, Gligar, Noctowl or HitmonchanNinetails, Rapidash or Flareon

That's six options water type wise... Woof! I think Starmie, Vaporeon and Lanturn are my best overall options. Gastrodon's a pretty good choice too(It's bulky and has decent offensive stats, Speed is it's only weak base stat). Mantine I threw in there in case I want too, it's not too bad and Azumarill will have to have the Huge Power ability if I train one.

*I like how you can send over later gen Pokemon, although I think they will show up with a ? as a number. It's not likely that I'll train up the Shellos/Gastrodon line, but I am giving it some consideration. I just need to check and see if it will evolve without the national dex.

After checking out Serebii, I added to the water type options for Soulsilver's playthrough.

MeganiumEspeon or JynxAmpharosAzumarill, Starmie, Vaporeon, Mantine, Lanturn or Gastrodon*Furret(Early member until I fill out my team more)Miltank, Gligar, Noctowl or HitmonchanNinetails, Rapidash or Flareon

That's six options water type wise... Woof! I think Starmie, Vaporeon and Lanturn are my best overall options. Gastrodon's a pretty good choice too(It's bulky and has decent offensive stats, Speed is it's only weak base stat). Mantine I threw in there in case I want too, it's not too bad and Azumarill will have to have the Huge Power ability if I train one.

*I like how you can send over later gen Pokemon, although I think they will show up with a ? as a number. It's not likely that I'll train up the Shellos/Gastrodon line, but I am giving it some consideration. I just need to check and see if it will evolve without the national dex.

Pretty good team, not to mention I love Ampharos. Its Special Attack is excellent, not to mention it has good speed. I also like Serebii.com, it's a good place when you need help on Pokemon, not to mention the name is Engrish.

Have you ever safely caught any of the glitch Pokemon? I'm trying to find an AR code to get ?????????? (the 2 blocky question marks Pokemon that has the same stats as Normal Form Deoxys.)

Pretty good team, not to mention I love Ampharos. Its Special Attack is excellent, not to mention it has good speed. I also like Serebii.com, it's a good place when you need help on Pokemon, not to mention the name is Engrish.

Have you ever safely caught any of the glitch Pokemon? I'm trying to find an AR code to get ?????????? (the 2 blocky question marks Pokemon that has the same stats as Normal Form Deoxys.)

I caught MissingNo. in Red/Blue. But that wasn't so much a safe catch, as it screwed with my save file(mainly the E4 data)

For that playthrough...

Two slots already decided.6 water types to choose from.3 fire types to choose from.2 psychic types to choose from.And a mix of 4 to choose from for the filler slot.

I've beaten Misty, Now I have to wait until night. Apparently I traded the only Oddish I have and I need one to show to Bill's grandfather for a Leaf Stone(I have the other Pokemon needed for my version).

I've defeated Surge and Janine, and I've been importing Pokemon to the Pal Park like crazy! Here is my prototype team for the E4 rematch (when they get there): Blaziken, Feraligatr, Sceptile, Espeon, Ampharos, and Tyranitar.

I'm garnering experience for Grovyle (soon to be Sceptile) at the E4. I brought along my level 83 Jirachi just in case things get rough. (I used AR to get it, so it's not technically legit, but it didn't screw my game up, so there.)

Also when I went through Viridian forest, I got a Gym Leaders number. You can guess which one.

BUGSY! I also got a picture with him in the National Park.

I might replace Ampharos with Salamence. I'm trying to develop a team with all weaknesses covered and various attacks. 3 starters, 2 pseudo-legendaries, and Espeon. That makes several physical, special, and mixed sweepers, if those terms are still used. I went to Smogon (a site for movesets) and got horribly confused.

I might replace Ampharos with Salamence. I'm trying to develop a team with all weaknesses covered and various attacks. 3 starters, 2 pseudo-legendaries, and Espeon. That makes several physical, special, and mixed sweepers, if those terms are still used. I went to Smogon (a site for movesets) and got horribly confused.

I wasn't even expecting him to be in there(Must be Thursday that you meet him in Viridian forest).

Those terms are still used. I've went on Smogon before, mostly just to read what they have for different Pokemon. That site tends to focus on competitive battling movesets.(Although I've seen Serebii post movesets as well, on their POTW)

As for the Pal Park counting a hacked Pokemon, it's probably due to it being a legal hack. Although I'm not sure if it discredits illegal hacks.(Since I don't have an AR nor have I used Pokesav)

I wasn't even expecting him to be in there(Must be Thursday that you meet him in Viridian forest).

Those terms are still used. I've went on Smogon before, mostly just to read what they have for different Pokemon. That site tends to focus on competitive battling movesets.(Although I've seen Serebii post movesets as well, on their POTW)

As for the Pal Park counting a hacked Pokemon, it's probably due to it being a legal hack. Although I'm not sure if it discredits illegal hacks.(Since I don't have an AR nor have I used Pokesav)

You've probably heard of Wondertomb.

Wondertomb, isn't that also known as Invincible Spiritomb? AKA Spiritomb with Wonder Guard? You can do the same thing with Sableye.

I'm just now learning how to EV train. Yes, you're probably LYAO right now. Blaziken's ATK went up 6! 6! I thought 4 was the max, and that was just with a Goldeen and a Seaking and Power Bracer! I'm training Blaziken to be a Physical Sweeper. His moves will probably be Blaze Kick, Focus Blast/Sky Uppercut, Earthquake, and Brave Bird.

Wondertomb, isn't that also known as Invincible Spiritomb? AKA Spiritomb with Wonder Guard? You can do the same thing with Sableye.

I'm just now learning how to EV train. Yes, you're probably LYAO right now. Blaziken's ATK went up 6! 6! I thought 4 was the max, and that was just with a Goldeen and a Seaking and Power Bracer! I'm training Blaziken to be a Physical Sweeper. His moves will probably be Blaze Kick, Focus Blast/Sky Uppercut, Earthquake, and Brave Bird.

I'm not LMAO. I usually don't EV train unless I've finished the game and am doing E4 rematches, a rare example is Magcargo for some extra oomph to it's Sp. Attack. I've seen 10+ and 17+ on stat boosts, but those were mainly on Pokemon being effort trained at a high level on a certain stat that really didn't get touched.

I'm not LMAO. I usually don't EV train unless I've finished the game and am doing E4 rematches, a rare example is Magcargo for some extra oomph to it's Sp. Attack. I've seen 10+ and 17+ on stat boosts, but those were mainly on Pokemon being effort trained at a high level on a certain stat that really didn't get touched.

Fire Fang hits a Wondertomb/Wondereye? Weird.

I did a +12 ATK on my Blaziken. EV training is mainly for hardcore competitive players, but I could always use some stat boosts on my Pokemon, especially for E4 rematches. I recently fully evolved the Squirtle and Hoppip lines. (Hoppip is mainly just for Pokedex completion.) My Blaziken knows all the moves I want except Earthquake.

I did a +12 ATK on my Blaziken. EV training is mainly for hardcore competitive players, but I could always use some stat boosts on my Pokemon, especially for E4 rematches. I recently fully evolved the Squirtle and Hoppip lines. (Hoppip is mainly just for Pokedex completion.) My Blaziken knows all the moves I want except Earthquake.

You could call the Fire Fang hitting a glitch(Although in Shedinja's case, it's weak to fire anyway). Someone on Youtube had a Flareon out against a Wondertomb and used other moves first to show the hack, then hit it with Fire Fang.

I listened to the cries that some Pokemon make(mainly that I've never had or evolved). Shaymin has a pretty unusual one, as it sounds almost like a bird.(Someone on Youtube slowed it down and said it kinda sounds like it's saying Thank You)

I've went through Route 21 and part of route 20. I'm at the Seafoam islands, wasn't sure which way to go, so I saved and stopped.

I haven't gotten far in Kanto, I've only beaten Janine, Sabrina, and Surge. I'm not sure what to do now that the Team Rocket dude ran from Cerulean Gym, so I just decided to work on my Pokedex. I recently added Aggron, Vileplume, Jumpluff, Parasect, Wailord, and several other evolutions to the Dex through EXP Share training and evolution stones.

Lass Dana gave me a Thunderstone a while back! I plan to use Ditto to breed Eevee from my Espeon, then evolve it into Jolteon. Quick question: do you know how Hoenn/Sinnoh Sound works? I know you use them to find Hoenn/Sinnoh Pokemon, but I'm not sure how. I did find a Mawile in Kanto.

I haven't gotten far in Kanto, I've only beaten Janine, Sabrina, and Surge. I'm not sure what to do now that the Team Rocket dude ran from Cerulean Gym, so I just decided to work on my Pokedex. I recently added Aggron, Vileplume, Jumpluff, Parasect, Wailord, and several other evolutions to the Dex through EXP Share training and evolution stones.

Lass Dana gave me a Thunderstone a while back! I plan to use Ditto to breed Eevee from my Espeon, then evolve it into Jolteon. Quick question: do you know how Hoenn/Sinnoh Sound works? I know you use them to find Hoenn/Sinnoh Pokemon, but I'm not sure how. I did find a Mawile in Kanto.

I haven't used those stations(only used the audio to fight and catch Snorlax), are they already available after you get the Expn. card?

If so, I've missed out on some catches, but I'll test it after I get through the next gym.

I figured out that you don't have to go down any floors at Seafoam, went and cleared route 20 and 19, have saved at Cinnabar gym.

Spoilers:

The Team Rocket guy is on route 24(The route north of Cerulean city). Fight him, he'll tell you where he hid the part.

Thanks, that helped out a lot. Now I can catch Carnivine and Bronzor on Thursdays. (I have only 1 DS, but I have tons of GBA cartridges, so Sinnoh Pokemon will be tough. Sometime, when the price goes down and I have 2 DSes, I'll probably get Diamond, Platinum, and HeartGold so I can complete the Dex and do SPOILER ALERT!!!!!

A BARREL ROLL! Just kidding, the Rayquaza sidequest in HG/SS.)

PS: Ever wonder what happens when you go crazy on downloading? This happens:

I've beaten all of the Kanto leaders and have Rock Climb. I'll be going to all the places that have Rock Climb in Kanto, catch what legendaries are available and go back to Johto. I need to breed a Pichu to get a Thunderstone.

Also need to get any available gym leader's numbers that I can throughout the week and do the bug contests, to see if I can some extra stones.(I need a Water Stone to solve an Unown puzzle, but I'm afraid it'll be used when I do, I need an extra in case I'll train a Vaporeon or Starmie in Soulsilver)

Oh, speaking of Soulsilver, I didn't think of the possibility of training the Squirtle line, so I'll put that in place of the Marill line.

I met Steven, and now I can go hunt Latios. I'm aiming to beat Brock tonight.

Quick stupid question: in the anime, is Pikachu really in love with Buneary? There's so many cheesy AMVs of it that it makes me wonder if it was really that important in the show. Still, it's not as heartbreaking as the death of Pikachu's ketchup bottle.

I caught Snorlax and I'm making my way to Diglett's Cave.

Edit: Brock has been defeated, and Blaziken now has the moveset I wanted. On to Cinnibar Island.

I met Steven, and now I can go hunt Latios. I'm aiming to beat Brock tonight.

Quick stupid question: in the anime, is Pikachu really in love with Buneary? There's so many cheesy AMVs of it that it makes me wonder if it was really that important in the show. Still, it's not as heartbreaking as the death of Pikachu's ketchup bottle.

I caught Snorlax and I'm making my way to Diglett's Cave.

Edit: Brock has been defeated, and Blaziken now has the moveset I wanted. On to Cinnibar Island.

You can get Lati pre-Red? (Looks it up.....) Oh..... no wonder, I didn't have the 2nd book until today, I knew I was forgetting something.

Pikachu isn't, as far as I know, but I read that the Buneary is smitten with Pikachu.

http://www.trsrockin.com/tr_all.html

I figured I post this link, has Pokemon(and Pokemon fakes) related stuff. It got me to look for the Mad magazine parody I have. I found it, although it's showing it's age.(I would send it to them if I had a way to scan the pages)

I've gotten the numbers of:

BrockMistyBlaineWhitneyMortyJasmineChuck(easiest number to get in the game)Bugsy

I think that's all the numbers I have so far. I've battled Blaine for abit and got my Politoed up to 70. I'll battle Morty later tonight to help level Tyrranitar.

Edit: I also had a nasty surprise in the bug catching contest today, all of them are at higher levels. My Butterfree got knocked out because of that. First time I lost and for a dumb reason at that.

After I type out a Performing Arts paper for school, I'm gonna try out the Sinnoh Sound radio show, since it is on today.

Edit: I've found some Sinnoh Pokemon, but not just through Sinnoh Sound. Bidoof, Starly, Kricketot, Shinx (evolved into Luxray), Budew, Carnivine, Chatot, Bronzor (evolved into Bronzong), and Chingling. I plan to catch more. I looked in the Pokedex book at Wal-Mart and found out I can catch virtually any Sinnoh Pokemon in SoulSilver through Sinnoh Sound, Pokewalker, and Safari Zone except the fossils, legendaries, and a few others.

I caught a Volbeat(and Kricketune, but I released it for Volbeat) at the Bug Catching contest today.

It turns out that you do get different element stones as 1st prize, but only after you get the national dex. I won a leaf stone.(Why couldn't they give you at least some of the others like that one pre-national? Sun Stones are nice, but they only evolve two Pokemon at the moment)

I forgot to mention that I caught Latias, used the Master Ball though.

Ranfan the Tyrranitar is at level 84(Rare candies rule, too bad I'm out). Level 84 is what I'm leveling for the mystery trainer. I looked up his roster and saw what one of his Pokemon is carrying.... Oh joy.

I beat the Elite 4 again after getting 26 badges. Actually, I used a Level 98 Dragonite I imported, and used EXP Share to fully evolve Shinx (I had him evolved earlier, but I forgot to save before I fought and KOed Moltres.), Ledyba, and Surskit. I also evolved Bidoof, Buizel, Roselia, Clefairy, and Exeggcute. Yeah, I've mainly been working on the Dex. I plan to beat the mystery trainer on Mt. Silver sometime soon, then go after Groudon.

Half of my team is at 84 now and my Ambipom is at 71, the level I was aiming for Pickup ability wise. My Phanpy is still in the daycare and 10 levels away from what I want her to be(51, Pickup ability wise)

Ariados is the biggest problem when it comes to leveling, now many good options for it trainer wise. The best gym leader(Erika) is at a rough time of the day in availability.

Half of my team is at 84 now and my Ambipom is at 71, the level I was aiming for Pickup ability wise. My Phanpy is still in the daycare and 10 levels away from what I want her to be(51, Pickup ability wise)

Ariados is the biggest problem when it comes to leveling, now many good options for it trainer wise. The best gym leader(Erika) is at a rough time of the day in availability.

This team will be very interesting, I must say. Ambipom is just for Pickup, right? Good choice for it. Remember, at Level 100 you can get Earthquake TMs.

This team will be very interesting, I must say. Ambipom is just for Pickup, right? Good choice for it. Remember, at Level 100 you can get Earthquake TMs.

Yeah, Ambipom and Phanpy are both for Pickup. Ambipom mainly for Grass Knot and Phanpy for Fling.(The lowest levels for those two TMs to be picked up) I hoping for a Grass Knot or two, mainly to teach Meganium.

It's actually 91 at the lowest for Earthquake TMs, since it goes by 10 level intervals.(I have level 91s for that)

The level 84s are Tyrranitar, Politoed and Magcargo at the moment, I'm thinking of leveling Meganium here shortly.

Congrats, I plan to get a Crobat too. A Shiny one. BTW, ever went to the trade boards on GameFAQS? Some people are giving legendaries for shinies. That's pretty good if you have a duplicate legendaries that are gathering dust.

Congrats, I plan to get a Crobat too. A Shiny one. BTW, ever went to the trade boards on GameFAQS? Some people are giving legendaries for shinies. That's pretty good if you have a duplicate legendaries that are gathering dust.

I'm registered at Gamefaqs.(Same username, minus the hyphen) I'm also the Offical Flareon on the Pokemon B/W boards.

But I've never been on the trade boards, mainly because I don't have wifi. Although it would be tempting(depends on what they're looking for, I have three of each legendary Kanto bird now) if I did.

The whole team is now at level 84, I'll be posting their stats in alittle bit.(Which will take less work than the first time) I'm going to see what I can get from Ambipom's pickup ability for short period of time.

I'm registered at Gamefaqs.(Same username, minus the hyphen) I'm also the Offical Flareon on the Pokemon B/W boards.

But I've never been on the trade boards, mainly because I don't have wifi. Although it would be tempting(depends on what they're looking for, I have three of each legendary Kanto bird now) if I did.

The whole team is now at level 84, I'll be posting their stats in alittle bit.(Which will take less work than the first time) I'm going to see what I can get from Ambipom's pickup ability for short period of time.

Congrats on the team. I've been looking for Sinnoh Pokemon in the Safari Zone, as well as some other Pokemon I don't have. Today I've caught Remoraid in an outbreak and Kingler, Muk, Smeargle, and Skorupi in the Safari Zone.

Don't know... I know some people have been wanting a different starter triangle type for awhile, a common brought up one is Psychic/Dark/Fighting. Some people oppose it though, due to one having an immunity in the triangle.

I don't mind whether they stick to the traditional one or make a new one.

Don't know... I know some people have been wanting a different starter triangle type for awhile, a common brought up one is Psychic/Dark/Fighting. Some people oppose it though, due to one having an immunity in the triangle.

I don't mind whether they stick to the traditional one or make a new one.

My nephew's actual choices at first were Ledyba line and Ekans line. I had to inform him that those were in Soulsilver not Heartgold(although I forgot about Ekans being available at the game corner at the time), so he picked the first bug in Heartgold(Spinarak line) and Zubat line.

My nephew's actual choices at first were Ledyba line and Ekans line. I had to inform him that those were in Soulsilver not Heartgold(although I forgot about Ekans being available at the game corner at the time), so he picked the first bug in Heartgold(Spinarak line) and Zubat line.

Besides its weak first form, Magcargo is doubly weak to both Ground and Water. Luckily the Elite 4 don't specialize in those.

I just caught.... not Groudon... not even Suicune.... but instead.... a cold. This will probably hamper my gaming for a while, though I'm saved at Suicune right now.

That is kinda of funny, I also find it funny that a Milotic is dancing too. Mainly because Milotic don't have any arms or legs.

Yeah, that was pretty funny. Speaking of Milotic, you can get Feebas on Pokewalker, then use Daisy's massages to raise its beauty and evolve it.

I've been watching Pokemon Advanced on YouTube. Wow, Relicanth in episode 2?! I personally think the Pokemon anime got stale at Diamond and Pearl. Original and Advanced were probably my faves. My fave Pokemon from the anime were Ash's Pikachu, Bulbasaur, and Charmander/Charmeleon/Charizard, Misty's Psyduck, Brock's Geodude, Mudkip/Marshtomp, and Crobat, and May's Torchic/Combusken/Blaziken.I love it when they stay faithful to the games, like when Brock's Golbat evolves into Crobat when he saves it from a pile of rocks he was buried in. At least that's what I remember. That showed the trust and friendship between them, and Crobat is a friendship evolution.

The speakonia type dialogue, I always find that funny. I remember someone on Youtube did a rap to that starring Curly Brace from Cave Story, it's not on there now(The user's account was banned), it was pretty vulgar too.

I know about the Beauty massage, too bad it doesn't exist in D/P/Pt, making Poffin is a major pain. I had to save and reset if I screwed up. The Pokewalker I do intend to use when playing Soulsilver.

And speaking of Soulsilver:

Planned team:

Chikorita lineMareep lineVulpix lineStaryu lineEspeonMiltank

People have been waiting for the Corocoro scans to be leaked, since it's suppose to show the pics of the 5th gen starters.(They've yet to be shown)

I think so. I wanna see some new and unthinkable type combos in Black/White. How about Fire/Water?

I beat Palmer in Pearl today using all three Regi Pokemon. I got very lucky. Dragonite fell to Regice's Ice Beam, and so did Rhyperior with a critical hit. Milotic gave me trouble, but thankfully Regice knew Thunderbolt.

I think so. I wanna see some new and unthinkable type combos in Black/White. How about Fire/Water?

I beat Palmer in Pearl today using all three Regi Pokemon. I got very lucky. Dragonite fell to Regice's Ice Beam, and so did Rhyperior with a critical hit. Milotic gave me trouble, but thankfully Regice knew Thunderbolt.

Cool, I've never had the patience for the Battle Tower. :)

Someone on Gamefaqs beat him using Glaceon and Hail+Blizzard(Glaceon's ability is Snow Cloak, help him out).

Someone on Gamefaqs beat him using Glaceon and Hail+Blizzard(Glaceon's ability is Snow Cloak, help him out).

Glaceon! That's a Pokemon I'd never thought of using. For me, Battle Tower is the ultimate test. I have a lot of fun just using my Action Replay. Wild Pokemon Modifier + Infinite Rare Candies + Instant Max EV codes = Lots of teams for the Battle Tower. Yes, Pearl is my uber-ARed game, while SoulSilver is my legit game.

Edit: If you have an Action Replay, here's a sweet code for the 99% legit Arceus I made using Pokesav! The only ill legit thing about it is that it says "apparently" met instead of just met. Special sweeper with Petaya Berry, caught in a Timer Ball, decent IVs, max Special Attack and Speed EVs, Bashful nature (hey, it was my first try), and cured Pokerus. Moves are Judgement, Flamethrower, Thunder, and Ice Beam. Note: This code is for Pearl, though it may work with Diamond. (Not sure about Platinum.)

Jolteon is the fastest in sweeping(base 130 speed)Espeon is the second fastest(base 110 speed)Leafeon is the third(base 95 speed)The other four all have a base stat of 65 speed.

I've never really cared for Jolteon(it's cool looking though).

Jolteon is very cool-looking. The thing about Electric-types is that they usually only learn Electric-type moves, which heavily limits sweeping for them. Jolteon can learn Shadow Ball, and Ampharos can learn Signal Beam, and Electevire can learn Flamethrower, and Magnezone can learn Flash Cannon, and.... hey, I disproved myself!

I wish Ampharos could learn Flash Cannon.(I checked) At least it can learn Power Gem.

Eeveelutions are somewhat limited in their movepools as well. I would love for Espeon to learn some special based fighting moves(It does get Signal Beam from a move tutors though) and Flareon to get some strong physical fire attacks(and priority one moves).

I wish Ampharos could learn Flash Cannon.(I checked) At least it can learn Power Gem.

Eeveelutions are somewhat limited in their movepools as well. I would love for Espeon to learn some special based fighting moves(It does get Signal Beam from a move tutors though) and Flareon to get some strong physical fire attacks(and priority one moves).

Espeon gets Signal Beam? I forgot. Now I can handle Grass and Dark types.

Although the only way that would happen early is if I traded to Platinum and go to the move tutor.

Yeah, that sucks.

Ever heard of the Mystery Zone? It's anywhere beyond the boundaries of the game. You can only access it through the Walk Through Walls AR code. You can't open any menus there, and all it is is a dark void. (Although a friend told me it rained once and he found Tentacool there.)

I think there is a way to enter it through a glitch, although it's really tricky to do so.

I heard you can reach it by using Surf in one of the Elite 4 rooms. From there you can reach Newmoon Island and Flower Paradise. I also heard the glitch was fixed in the US version. I also herd u liek mudkipz.

And yes, I did pick Mudkip when I talked to Hoenn Champion Steven in Kanto.(Once it was available)

Shaymin is pretty decent, though I don't know what its Sky Forme is like since I haven't played Platinum. Wait, Sky Forme means it's Grass/Flying, right? Another 4x Ice weakness. I knew it. Everyone lieks mudkipz.

It's a shame I don't.(I don't know how well this old hardware could handle it either)

You've seen the nicknames that have been posted for the starters I see. So far the fire and grass ones appeal to me the most, the water starter puzzles me alittle, but I'll wait to see what it evolves into before first to truly decide.

Rotom can breed?! Sorry for the newb realization.

I've watched a gameplay vid of Black/White... UBER. I have to get Black or White the day it comes out. PIGNITION FTW!

Yep, it's part of the family that ghost types belong to(Along with some other types).

None of it's base stats are at 100 before changing forms, but man.... it gains over 70(maybe 80) points base stat total wise when going into it's different forms.

You've seen the nicknames that have been posted for the starters I see. So far the fire and grass ones appeal to me the most, the water starter puzzles me alittle, but I'll wait to see what it evolves into before first to truly decide.

It's not quite like that, mostly this one site where you can put captions on a picture of it. They even have a Jamaica style image of it. None of them are likely to stick at the moment though. Some are amusing and some are obscene.

It's not quite like that, mostly this one site where you can put captions on a picture of it. They even have a Jamaica style image of it. None of them are likely to stick at the moment though. Some are amusing and some are obscene.

Hmm, captions on the pic... like Lolcats. Have you seen the YT clip of Black/White where Raikou battles a Zoroark disguised as an Entei? And why are they using the legendary dogs in this?

From what I've read.... It's shiny versions that you get in an event. In Japan, I think it's at the newest movie.

SHINIES?! OK, Japan tortures us with more legit shinies. If only Phantom Ruler Zoroark made it to theaters in America instead of just Cartoon Network.

I just heard someone on GameFAQs say that Mijimaru is moe... WHAT?! Mijimaru doesn't have glasses or a maid costume or anything fetishy like that... yeah, I ripped that line from Haruhi. When I get a job and an eBay account, I'm going to boost my collection of Pokemon figures and plushies, and maybe even get some of the Japanese games. Ever seen vids of the Pokecenter store in New York or Osaka? They sell pretty much everything Pokemon. The games, cards, exclusive plushies, and even candy/snacks. Speaking of which, I remember eating Pokemon cereal, Pokemon Pop-Tarts (got 3 exclusive figures from them too: Chansey, Charmander, and Poliwrath), and Gengar popsicles. And for some reason, Pokecenter once had a table with a HUUUUUGE pile of stuffed Shaymins. Yeah, I'm going overboard in this post. Just felt like sharing my thoughts. Another awesome thing about the Pokecenter stores: they play the Pokemon Center BGM 24/7.

Well, who knows how we'll get them here.(I never thought I would get Jirachi until you told me about the event)

I've seen and posted on that thread... The things they were saying made me think of TVtropes, a site that mentions different tropes/idioms used in TV, video games, cartoons, etc.

I've seen vids of the store(New York one I think). BGM from the Pokemon Center, that's better than the music they've been playing where I work at.(I'm tired of hearing the song that some girl sings about a battlefield. That song's like walking through a mine field, only scarier)

Pokemon is also on TVtropes, I'll copy a few of the things down and post them here real quick.

Character Select Forcing: Charmander is almost useless against Brock and Misty, leading many players to prefer Squirtle or Bulbasaur instead.

In Yellow, Pikachu is literally this, as you can't pick any other starter (you get the 3 later on though). Thankfully, while he's dead weight against Brock, you have many options to choose from to beat him, including Mankey trained to get Low Kick, or Butterfree to get Confusion which preys on his Pokémon's low Special stats.

However, in the Generation 1 remakes FireRed and LeafGreen, Charmander learns the Steel-type move Metal Claw relatively early - which is super-effective against Brock's Pokémon. Alternatively, a player could catch a Fighting-type Mankey to take out Brock and an Electric-type Pikachu to make handling Misty significantly easier. In fact, the game makes it a point to avoid Character Select Forcing after the first generation. The first generation is ridiculously broken compared to the later ones.

Well, after the second generation. Chikorita gets wrecked by the first two gyms in G/S/C, and there is not one gym in Johto that Grass is super effective against. Unlike Charmander in FR/LG, they didn't give Chikorita anything to deal with the first gym in HG/SS, but then again, that's because there's really nothing it might be able to learn that they could give to it so early to combat flying types (it can eventually be Ancientpower far later into the game though).

Disc One Nuke* The Pickup ability in Ruby/Sapphire. It's available on Zigzagoon, one of the Com Mons available right from the beginning, and gives you a 10% chance to get a free item after battle. This could be anything from a basic healing item (though one better than you can get in the first part of the game, making battles much easier) to a stat-boosting item or a Rare Candy. A little luck and you could easily blow through much of the game. Later releases better balanced the ability, making it less broken in the early stages of the game but more valuable later on than in Ruby/Sapphire.

Character Select Forcing: Charmander is almost useless against Brock and Misty, leading many players to prefer Squirtle or Bulbasaur instead.

In Yellow, Pikachu is literally this, as you can't pick any other starter (you get the 3 later on though). Thankfully, while he's dead weight against Brock, you have many options to choose from to beat him, including Mankey trained to get Low Kick, or Butterfree to get Confusion which preys on his Pokémon's low Special stats.

However, in the Generation 1 remakes FireRed and LeafGreen, Charmander learns the Steel-type move Metal Claw relatively early - which is super-effective against Brock's Pokémon. Alternatively, a player could catch a Fighting-type Mankey to take out Brock and an Electric-type Pikachu to make handling Misty significantly easier. In fact, the game makes it a point to avoid Character Select Forcing after the first generation. The first generation is ridiculously broken compared to the later ones.

Well, after the second generation. Chikorita gets wrecked by the first two gyms in G/S/C, and there is not one gym in Johto that Grass is super effective against. Unlike Charmander in FR/LG, they didn't give Chikorita anything to deal with the first gym in HG/SS, but then again, that's because there's really nothing it might be able to learn that they could give to it so early to combat flying types (it can eventually be Ancientpower far later into the game though).

Disc One Nuke* The Pickup ability in Ruby/Sapphire. It's available on Zigzagoon, one of the Com Mons available right from the beginning, and gives you a 10% chance to get a free item after battle. This could be anything from a basic healing item (though one better than you can get in the first part of the game, making battles much easier) to a stat-boosting item or a Rare Candy. A little luck and you could easily blow through much of the game. Later releases better balanced the ability, making it less broken in the early stages of the game but more valuable later on than in Ruby/Sapphire.

*This one is a very long one, so I just posted the beginning.

I agree with them on Chikorita being totally fail. The Chikorita line is probably my least favorite starter line. Hoenn starters FTW!

I'm hunting Latios in SoulSilver. He was too fast for Bronzong's Block attack. Any ideas?

Chikorita has it bad in the movepool department, but I still love training it. Mine(As a Meganium of course) actually survived two Ice Fangs from Lance's Gyarados(without a Yache Berry at that). I guess that had more to do with no attack bonus for Ice attacks(due to Gyarados' typing lacking that) and Meganium's higher Defensive stat. Charmander gets screwed pretty hard in Gen 1 against the first two gyms.(Fixed in Gen 3)

At least in HG/SS, you can pick up a Mareep(Something you couldn't do 2nd gen, that really annoyed me) before Falkner and you can use Geodude if you don't prefer the Fire starter, making easier to deal with Bugsy.

Have you tried a Quick Claw on Bronzong? It's definetly up to chance with that item, but it helped me abit in causing status conditions on Legendaries(due to my not wanting to level up my Butterfree higher than 20).

Have you tried a Quick Claw on Bronzong? It's definetly up to chance with that item, but it helped me abit in causing status conditions on Legendaries(due to my not wanting to level up my Butterfree higher than 20).

Ironic you said that, after it ran I gave Bronzong the Quick Claw. However, I swapped Bronzong for Wobbufett, which wasn't a good idea because Mirror Coat one hit KOed it. I will go with Quick Claw Bronzong, and lots of Ultra/Dusk balls.

I'll be doing a choice scarf false swipe Farfetch'd(That I have prepared on Heartgold).

I simply caught Latias with the Master Ball, but I'll be saving that for Rayquaza on Soulsilver.

I had 2 Master Balls: one from SoulSilver and one from a GBA game. I used one on Raikou and one on the shiny Golbat (just in case it knew Whirlwind.) I'm waiting until tonight to go after Latios so I can use Dusk Balls.

You can win Master Balls in the lottery in D/P/Pt, of course it helps to have multiple Trainer IDs when trying.

You're right. But remember: only one DS.

I've been playing Ruby to get money to buy coins to get good TMs. Just bought a Thunderbolt TM with coins for the Starmie I'm going to train. Starmie's moves will probably be Surf, Psychic, Thunderbolt, and Ice Beam. That allows 2 STAB and attacks to take out Fire, Water, Grass, Fighting, Poison, Rock, Ground... I could go on, but I won't.

I've played abit of Voltorb Flip, but I don't think I have the tolerance to use it to build up for TMs, so I generally trade for them. I do use it for lower priced prizes though.(Namely Wide Lens)

Edit: You sure can get a Master Ball as a prize in HG/SS from the Lucky Number show.

Lucky Number show? Is that like Buena's Password?

The best way in my opinion to get the Flamethrower, Ice Beam, Thunderbolt, and Psychic TMs is the Game Corner in R/S/E. Just pummel the E4 a few times and buy enough coins to buy an uber TM.

I'm trying to build a team without using any starters, legendaries, or pseudo-legendaries (Dragonite, Tyranitar, Salamence, Metagross, Garchomp, and Lucario, in my opinion). I'm tempted to include Gallade, but that would be weird having two Psychic-types (counting Starmie.)

My Soulsilver team will have an Espeon and Starmie, so I'm in the same boat. Heck, the Heartgold team had two with Rock typing and two with Poison typing. Definetly awkward in some situations.

:D

The two Rock-types is my fault. (Magcargo and Tyranitar)

I used AR codes to legitimately get Arceus (Japanese Wi-Fi event version with Roar Of Time, Spacial Rend, and Shadow Force) on SoulSilver so I could get to the Sinjoh Ruins. I chose Dialga for my Level 1 legendary you get there. I also used AR to get the Enigma Stone (Soul Dew, and lets you encounter Latias outisde Pewter Museum) and a Manaphy Egg. I plan to use my Arceus, alongside several other Level 100s, to beat Red, then go after Groudon sometime.

Well, it's not too hard as long as you keep in the party. Soothe Bell helps as well.(As well as Proteins, etc.)

I've been using Soothe Bell, Proteins, and Carboses. Right now I'm not worried too much about it, though. What I'm doing now is getting a payload of Rare Candies via Pickup on Ruby. Pickup in R/S was cool because you could get Rare Candies regardless of level. I sent some over and got Starmie to Level 50 with the desired moves I mentioned. My non-legendary, non-pseudo-legendary, non-starter team will probably be Starmie, Crobat, Houndoom, Mawile, Snorlax, and Flygon. (Mawile and Crobat are shiny.)

On another note, some people are wondering if the locations in B/W are based off of cities.... in America! (Yu-gi-oh abridged series reference)

Leeroy Jenkins is a meme sparked by some dudes on World Of Warcraft trying to cause a diversion. Some guy randomly says: "Let's do this! LEEEROOOOOOOOOY JEEENKIIIIIIIIINS!" Yes, I know about the whole "in America!" thing because Bandit Keith says it in the YT vid "GUHROOGAMESH!!!!!!!1". I'll have to post that soon.

I got the Pokedex book today. After looking at Gengar's stats, I'm tempted to train one.

Off topic, but about Yu-Gi-Oh, my favorite abridged part is the opening which sounds like an soap opera(episode 7 of the abridged).

I even mimicked it when I started my posting about my playthrough of Platinum on the original LTE thread. :D

Yeah, I have several Gengar back on Ruby, and I think I imported one. Sludge Bomb + Dark Pulse + who knows what else + HUGE Sp. Attack and great Speed = awesome Special Sweeper. Man, it seems like too many of my Pokemon end up Special Sweepers.

I haven't watched too much of Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged, but didn't Joey once use a meme deck?

Caught a Hippopotas at the Safari Zone. I'm placing the objects for Riolu and Gible.

Yeah, I have several Gengar back on Ruby, and I think I imported one. Sludge Bomb + Dark Pulse + who knows what else + HUGE Sp. Attack and great Speed = awesome Special Sweeper. Man, it seems like too many of my Pokemon end up Special Sweepers.

I haven't watched too much of Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged, but didn't Joey once use a meme deck?

Caught a Hippopotas at the Safari Zone. I'm placing the objects for Riolu and Gible.

I watched up to 14th episode of that, so I didn't know about that. I need to install a better player for youtube on Opera browser, most vids on Youtube won't show up on it. I've been really lazy about doing that.

IE6 has been phased out(although it still plays vids, alot got a bad case of showing very few frames).

I watched up to 14th episode of that, so I didn't know about that. I need to install a better player for youtube on Opera browser, most vids on Youtube won't show up on it. I've been really lazy about doing that.

IE6 has been phased out(although it still plays vids, alot got a bad case of showing very few frames).

Firefox is bookmarked on my comp(found it by accident). It won't let me use it though, although I could try a new version to see what happens, the only problem is compatibility with XP(old version, not the service pack 2 version). Opera has been bugging me sometimes, Gamefaqs is slower than it is on IE6, while Woodus is much faster than it is on IE6.

Firefox is bookmarked on my comp(found it by accident). It won't let me use it though, although I could try a new version to see what happens, the only problem is compatibility with XP(old version, not the service pack 2 version). Opera has been bugging me sometimes, Gamefaqs is slower than it is on IE6, while Woodus is much faster than it is on IE6.

I'll try tommorrow though to see.

I hope for the best.

I beat the Frontier Brain at the Battle Hall. I used Starmie. I was a little worried when she brought out Venusaur, but luckily it didn't use a Grass-type move (it used Toxic and 2 Protects), so I swept it with Psychic on the turns it didn't Protect itself. Took 2 attacks. Right now I'm working on the Dex.

The one thing that annoys me about Protect ingame is that when the computer uses it, it doesn't fail as often when used in successive turns. It's the confusion rule, it the computer is confused, they'll still attack you way more often than you would them under the same situation.

The one thing that annoys me about Protect ingame is that when the computer uses it, it doesn't fail as often when used in successive turns. It's the confusion rule, it the computer is confused, they'll still attack you way more often than you would them under the same situation.

Yeah, the computer cheats big time.

I'm training a Staraptor for my Battle Frontier team. Its moves will probably be Brave Bird, Return, Close Combat, and Steel Wing. Not too diverse, but good attack power and STAB moves. Steel Wing is there to take out Rock types that threaten it. I've given it 2 Attack EV Level ups, +13 and +11.

Finally got back on, that stupid malware blocked my use of Opera(although there is an option on the browser that I can choose to get around that). I started my Soulsilver playthrough. I'm not that far though...(still near the begginning, but I do have a sentret on my team)

Finally got back on, that stupid malware blocked my use of Opera(although there is an option on the browser that I can choose to get around that). I started my Soulsilver playthrough. I'm not that far though...(still near the begginning, but I do have a sentret on my team)

I get into more detail after work tommorrow.

Edit: Well, well, well... Those are pretty wicked looking.

Yeah, they are. Some people are saying the white one will be either a new Light-type or a Fighting-type. I think they'll make a Light-type.

I've beaten Dahlia at the Battle Arcade using only my Staraptor and only using Brave Bird. Sure I ended up Burned with only 8 HP left, but come on! All 3 Pokemon alive after a Frontier Brain?! That's pretty good, if I do say so myself. Someone on YouTube did the same thing, except he used Fly instead of Brave Bird.

Cool, I know they changed Dahlia's title when translating. Was Roulette Goddess in the Japanese version.

I'm at Violet city on Soulsilver, I'm about to do some trades here in alittle while.

My current team:

Nobue the ChikoritaGiana the SentretPatra-ko the Mareep

Others have anticipated/wanted another new type, namely a Light type. Although some say that Fighting is the light type(some of these people also seem to be against the idea of pure Flying types, why I don't know).

Interesting. Obviously they took out "Goddess", but... why did that fisherman dude in the anime say he was a fishing god in the dub?

I'm currently EV training a Weavile. HUGE Speed and great attack, plus a variety of TM moves. I'm very tempted to use an AR code to get 999 of all TMs, since moveset trouble is driving me mad. And there's still plenty of non-TM Frontier prizes to be won.

I remember using a Lickilicky in the Battle Factory. It had a great variety of Special moves, and HUGE HP. He would make a good Special Tank for my team. So this amounts to several Physical and Special Pokemon. I don't really buy into gimmicks like Rapid Spinners and all that stuff. I just sweep with the best attacks, while strategically using type matchups/diversities and hold items. I just noticed all these Pokemon are dual-types except Rapidash and Lickilicky.

I would really want a pure Flying-type for Black/White. I'm sick of Normal/Flying types getting pounded with Fighting-type attacks. I will miss the Ghost immunity, though.

I think it was the reference to gambling(roulette goddess) than any religious thing. The casinos in the games are called Game Corners internationally(and recently changed to Voltorb Flip games and you can't buy coins... Ugh). The funny thing is I've seen other things in the games that got past the radar. Which makes me question why they take certain things out of games that are still rated a higher requirement by the ESRB.(Dragon Quest stuff comes to mind)

I remember when Sneasel's dual typing were both special based in the earlier in the games, mixed with it having poor special attack. Thank goodness for the physical/special split.

To be honest, the only time I used a flying type against ghost types was Honchkrow, which wasn't immune to ghost attacks(But it did resist them). I've read some posts online about the Normal/Flying type combo, it is annoying. This is due to the neutral damage coupled by the fact that alot of Normal/Flying types don't have the best bulk and defenses. Staraptor is like this, but does get the intimidate ability(but is still useless against special attack based fighting moves). Togekiss is the only Normal/Flying type I enjoy training. It's not the fastest, but it's one of the bulkier Flying sub types(It survived against Cynthia's Lucario, who used Rock Slide IIRC).

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WMG/CalvinAndHobbes

^ Off topic, I found this, I found it ammusing.... Because they're taking Calvin and Hobbes and playing connect the dots with it, using other strips and cartoons to make continuity out of it. They even connect(or compare) Haruhi to it.

[quote author=Step-chan link=topic=37927.msg2428428#msg2428428 ^ Off topic, I found this, I found it ammusing.... Because they're taking Calvin and Hobbes and playing connect the dots with it, using other strips and cartoons to make continuity out of it. They even connect(or compare) Haruhi to it.

It all makes sense now... CALVIN IS KYON! If only they would've included Mikuru Beam... BTW, I've started watching Haruhi-chan (the chibi 3D web-only spinoff of Haruhi) and it is hilarious. Fave characters are Haruhi, Kyon, and probably that one girl (can't remember her name, she has blue hair) who's trying to kill Kyon and ends up shrinking and being taken captive by Yuki.

Yeah, some of the type matchups in R/S/E/FR/LG were crap. Good thing they changed it to attacks that connect are physical, attacks that don't are special.

Weavile has a few Attack EVs, and once it reached Level 50 it will be on my Frontier team.

Well, someone on there said Calvin is Haruhi, I guess due to over active imaginations. I liked how they did Calvin is Jeremy(from Zits) is Frazz connection. Jeremy from Zits always reminded me of Calvin alittle. Then there was this other comic series called Sinfest where the main character and his friend dress up as them:

Well, someone on there said Calvin is Haruhi, I guess due to over active imaginations. I liked how they did Calvin is Jeremy(from Zits) is Frazz connection. Jeremy from Zits always reminded me of Calvin alittle. Then there was this other comic series called Sinfest where the main character and his friend dress up as them:

http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=59

(It's SFW, although the site name would make it not sound like it is)

That was pretty funny.

Back to Pokemon. You said you used a Honchkrow? I'd like to train one of those after reading about it on Smogon. I have one, but it's at a low level and has no egg moves or prematurely learned moves as Murkrow. I'll probably get a female Murkrow (or my Honchkrow if it's a female) to breed with my Staraptor to give it Brave Bird, my fave Flying move.

Weavile is at Level 50 with great Attack and Speed. I'm gonna try to train a Manectric. Just looked at its huge Special Attack and Speed in the strategy guide that I bought... IN AMERICA! (Plus it can learn Flamethrower.)

Edit: Pikachu Leekspin. Yes, I know Farfetch'd would be more fitting, but here's this anyway.

Honchkrow is pretty nice, although it's not fast(Base speed 70). It's kinda like Absol in the speed regard. Their both favorite Dark types of mine.

I've done my trades and will get around to training my team up for the tower and gym in Violet.

I seen one of Ranma 1/2 in WMG section similiar to Calvin and Hobbes(although with more mature theories, but I digress).

Yeah, I've seen several Loituma's polka vids that are around 10 minutes long.

I remember hearing that Honchkrow had "usuable" speed on Smogon. Hey, with EV training it could be much faster. Yes, I've been hugely obsessed with EV training lately, but who can blame me with such huge stat gains? Too bad it only lasts for 3-4 level-ups per stat for only 2 stats...

Speaking of Absol, I have one close to Level 50. I was trying to beat Emerald, but I gave up since I had Action Replayed too much (I got all the badges without beating the Gym Leaders, if I remember right.), so I sent over my team to SoulSilver. The team was legit, including my Swampert and Absol.

Also, on the topic of sitting through really long stuff.... MUDKIP: THE INSANE EDITION.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKzqP4-0Z6M

Yes, we all liek mudkipz. I also liek torchikz, treeckoz, and piplupz.

Well, 70 base speed is usable. It's just not as fast as Staraptor or Swellow. I think Honchkrow is UU(not entirely sure... I haven't looked it up) and I know Absol is UU(although a very effective UU, Honchkrow also fits that based on movepool and typing).

Well, 70 base speed is usable. It's just not as fast as Staraptor or Swellow. I think Honchkrow is UU(not entirely sure... I haven't looked it up) and I know Absol is UU(although a very effective UU, Honchkrow also fits that based on movepool and typing).

I've seen that vid as well, plus a Chocolate Rain one.

Yeah, I usually never train a Pokemon if it doesn't have a decent movepool. I have also seen the Mudkipz Chocolate Rain, as well as the Spongebob chocolate guy singing it.

That's what kinda screws most eeveelutions over, limited movepools. The two most used are Jolteon and Vaporeon, since they have good roles(Jolteon sweeper and Vaporeon bulky water). Espeon teeters on BL/OU, it's usually used as a Calm Mind-Baton Passer, as others tend to outdo it in sweeping(it's fast, but it's movepool is more limited than Azelf and Alakazam). Umbreon is usually used as a wall, due to it's highest stats being in it's defenses and hit points. It's there to wall psychic threats(including Latias, which is OU without soul dew at the moment), one setup that people do with Umbreon is a Curse setup combined with Payback, but this is risky with taunters, making it only usable sometimes(Although I did see a video where someone had Umbreon Baton Pass Curse to a Azuamarill and sweeped the opponents team with Aqua Jet).

Flareon, Leafeon and Glaceon are UU. Flareon due to lack speed and movepool, Leafeon I'm completely sure other than moves and Glaceon for the same reason as Flareon.

That's what kinda screws most eeveelutions over, limited movepools. The two most used are Jolteon and Vaporeon, since they have good roles(Jolteon sweeper and Vaporeon bulky water). Espeon teeters on BL/OU, it's usually used as a Calm Mind-Baton Passer, as others tend to outdo it in sweeping(it's fast, but it's movepool is more limited than Azelf and Alakazam). Umbreon is usually used as a wall, due to it's highest stats being in it's defenses and hit points. It's there to wall psychic threats(including Latias, which is OU without soul dew at the moment), one setup that people do with Umbreon is a Curse setup combined with Payback, but this is risky with taunters, making it only usable sometimes(Although I did see a video where someone had Umbreon Baton Pass Curse to a Azuamarill and sweeped the opponents team with Aqua Jet).

Flareon, Leafeon and Glaceon are UU. Flareon due to lack speed and movepool, Leafeon I'm completely sure other than moves and Glaceon for the same reason as Flareon.

I totally agree about Eeveelutions being limited. I actually think Leafeon has a good move list, though I can't remember all of it, I know it had Leaf Blade and X-Scissor. I really wish I had 2 DSes right now so I could send over Azelf.

I'm training my Gengar now. It is at Level 37 and its moves will be Shadow Ball, Sludge Bomb, Thunderbolt, and Focus Blast. I was tempted to pick Psychic, but since it will probably be on my Frontier team with Starmie or my soon-to-be-trained Gallade, I held off.

It's not the worst movepool, since it actually gets a strong grass attack that goes by it's stronger attack stat. I taught mine X-scissor on Platinum(help in dealing with psychics). Flareon gets the short end of the stick somewhat. Flareon's physical attack stat is 130 while it's special attack stat is 95(which is still fairly good), but Flareon's only physical fire attack is Fire Fang, no Flare Blitz for it at the moment(would be nice if they add in a fire type version of quick attack that it can learn 5th gen).

(looks up Leafeon)

Well, it does get a decent selection, more than I remembered. I didn't know that it could learn Aerial Ace. It might be it's typing that holds it out of OU.(Grass is rough defensively, 5 weaknesses)

It's not the worst movepool, since it actually gets a strong grass attack that goes by it's stronger attack stat. I taught mine X-scissor on Platinum(help in dealing with psychics). Flareon gets the short end of the stick somewhat. Flareon's physical attack stat is 130 while it's special attack stat is 95(which is still fairly good), but Flareon's only physical fire attack is Fire Fang, no Flare Blitz for it at the moment(would be nice if they add in a fire type version of quick attack that it can learn 5th gen).

(looks up Leafeon)

Well, it does get a decent selection, more than I remembered. I didn't know that it could learn Aerial Ace. It might be it's typing that holds it out of OU.(Grass is rough defensively, 5 weaknesses)

I think I might train a Leafeon sometime when I get a 2nd DS. I have a legit Leafeon (I stress that it's legit since half of my Pearl Pokemon are either caught in locations they can't normally be found, I used Wild Pokemon Modifier, or have Wonder Guard.) on Pearl that I can trade over.

Admittedly though, Leafeon's options work better in UU than in OU from what I read on Smogon.

Leafeon is one of my Hall of Fame Pokemon on Platinum. Infernape, Absol, Togekiss, Milotic and Gardevoir are the other Hall of Fame ones.

Cool, you picked Chimchar, so did I on Pearl. Gengar is at Level 50 with the desired moves. Entered it in Battle Tower and it got swept on the first turn by a Faint Attacking Murkrow. >:( Oh well, it did fine after that embarassing faint. Wait a sec, does Faint Attack always strike first, or is my Gengar really slower than a Murkrow?

More Pokemon Caramelldansen:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djgZMDtcY40&feature=related

Gengar is supposed to be faster. Murkow's base speed stat is 19 lower than Gengar. Faint Attack is a always hit move, but not first priority. I think everything in the Battle Tower has 30 or 31 IVs in their stats. They probably have them holding items as well(This is just guessing).

If the Murkow outsped your Gengar, it might have been holding a Choice Scarf. Your Gengar's IV in speed might also have been a factor.

Gengar is supposed to be faster. Murkow's base speed stat is 19 lower than Gengar. Faint Attack is a always hit move, but not first priority. I think everything in the Battle Tower has 30 or 31 IVs in their stats. They probably have them holding items as well(This is just guessing).

If the Murkow outsped your Gengar, it might have been holding a Choice Scarf. Your Gengar's IV in speed might also have been a factor.

Hmm... maybe I should catch a bunch of Haunters on FireRed, see which one has the best stats/natures, then trade it and start the whole thing over again? Maybe I'm getting a little worked up over nothing.

Anyways, I'm training my Gallade now. It is at Level 36 and will know Psycho Cut, Leaf Blade, Earthquake, and Swords Dance. (No Close Combat because it learns it past Level 50, and I feel bad about using Pokemon past Level 50 in the Frontier due to the stat loss.)So far I like Gallade, but its Speed is getting me a bit worried. To counter that, I EV trained it a little against some Golbats in the Victory Road cave. And of course, I maxed its Attack EVs by battling Goldeen/Seaking at the pool near Mt. Mortar.

Lemme check... it says he's somewhat vain. He has a Timid nature. Not sure how good that is, I'm not the biggest expert on Natures, I do know that Adamant is the best Nature for Physical Sweepers.

Gallade is almost to Level 50. My team for finishing off Palmer will be Gallade (easily takes out Milotic with Leaf Blade), Gengar (sweeps through the pre-Palmer battles), and Lickilicky (will know Ice Beam for Dragonite and Surf for Rhyperior.)

I've beaten the first two gyms. It's less complicated this time due to having less to level up at the moment. Gave Kurt some Green Apricorns and will be leveling my Scyther and Butterfree up some levels on Sunday(Scyther's my False Swiper and Butterfree's my status and Bug Catching contester).

^ Although not Pokemon related. I finally bought some anime DVDs for the first time since the break-ins in 2006. I got was Sgt. Frog Season 1 and the Lucky Star complete series.

Wow, the whole Lucky Star series? Doesn't that have the Hare Hare Yukai dance in it somewhere? (I know the dance is from Haruhi, but I heard it was also in Lucky Star.) I also have rented a DVD of Naruto Shippuden which I plan to watch before Tuesday. I'll probably watch it in Japanese with English subs, because the dubs are kinda annoying... IN AMERICA! (Yep, you totally saw that coming.)

I ended up getting a Shiny Stone in the Pokeathlon. My right hand felt like it was about to fall off... anyways, I now have Togekiss (that's what I needed the stone for), I've loaded it up with Aura Sphere, Psychic, and Air Slash from Move Tutor and a TM, and I plan to EV train it soon. I already used some berries to lower its unneeded Attack EVs,as well as some other stats, like HP and defenses, unneeded to sweepers. I want all its EVs in Special Attack and Speed.

BTW, are you using your Pokewalker? I heard you mention earlier you were having a hard time getting Heart Scales. On the Beautiful Beach Pokewalker route, they're among the items you can get with the Dowsing Machine, not to mention you get this route pretty early. Later on, when you unlock the Sinnoh Field route, you can get Rare Candies, though its rare (no pun intended).

One last thing (yeah, I wanted to talk a lot on this thread for some reason today), have you ever seen Pokemon: The Abridged Series? It's almost as funny as the Yu-Gi-Oh one, although it can be obscene at times. I found it funny that the samurai dude kept calling Ash "Satoshi" after his Japanese name. Also, when Ash sends out Metapod, the samurai says "Oh no, a Metapod! I will never beat it with a Pinsir!" then sends Pinsir back to its Poke Ball! They did make some pretty noticeable mistakes in the anime, well, at least to people who have played the games.

That was the Scyther I caught on Heartgold. I sent him over to help in catching. The Butterfree, Chamoro, is another sent over for that purpose.

With nicknames, as you said, Scyther's name is from One Piece.

Butterfree's is from Dragon Quest 6.

Bayleef's is from Strawberry Marshmellow. After the 16 year old(20 in the anime).Flaaffy's is from Cleopatra's Fortune(found out that was her name alittle while back).Vulpix's is from Rogue Galaxy.Furret's is from Giana sisters on the DS.

That was the Scyther I caught on Heartgold. I sent him over to help in catching. The Butterfree, Chamoro, is another sent over for that purpose.

With nicknames, as you said, Scyther's name is from One Piece.

Butterfree's is from Dragon Quest 6.

Bayleef's is from Strawberry Marshmellow. After the 16 year old(20 in the anime).Flaaffy's is from Cleopatra's Fortune(found out that was her name alittle while back).Vulpix's is from Rogue Galaxy.Furret's is from Giana sisters on the DS.

Rogue Galaxy... I think my bro has that game. I might try it sometime.

I'm taking a short break from SoulSilver to play Emerald 386, an emulator ROM I downloaded. It plays just like Emerald, except you can find all 386 Pokemon in it. (Actually, I've heard rumors that its programmer forgot Mantine.) I chose Treecko as my starter (the other choices were Cyndauil and Squirtle) and I've beaten May.

Kisala the Vulpix is level 10 right now. I've been focusing on the Mareep's on route 32 using Flaaffy's Static ability to draw them out more often and then switch. I could try Gastly at night in Sprout Tower, but I don't know if they pop up often enough to be worth it.

He lead off with Milotic, which I 2HKOed with Gallade's Leaf Blade. After that, his Dragonite got Gallade with Aerial Ace (I had been hit once with Milotic's Surf.) I sent in Lickilicky, who survived Dragon Claw and finished Dragonite off with Ice Beam. Last but not least was Rhyperior. I thought I had 1HKOed it with Surf, but turns out it had a Focus Band and followed it up with a finishing blow Earthquake. Oh well, I still had Gengar left who swept Rhyperior away with Shadow Ball.

Now I've beaten all 5 Frontier Brains once. Now all that's left for me is to beat them twice to get the Gold Prints, and complete the National Dex.

I bought both myself(Dragon Quest 9 trailer started while I was typing this, had to pause it).

Let's see... They added more to the story, there are more Pokemon in the Sinnoh dex, including fire types(Something that Diamond and Pearl needed alittle more of than 2 families). Eevee line is also part of it, that's one thing I loved alot about it.

A few of the gyms are re-arranged, the Elite 4 is toned down level wise alittle. There's also more to it post game.

It's ultimately up to you, but I enjoyed it as much(if not more) as my copy of Pearl.

I bought both myself(Dragon Quest 9 trailer started while I was typing this, had to pause it).

Let's see... They added more to the story, there are more Pokemon in the Sinnoh dex, including fire types(Something that Diamond and Pearl needed alittle more of than 2 families). Eevee line is also part of it, that's one thing I loved alot about it.

A few of the gyms are re-arranged, the Elite 4 is toned down level wise alittle. There's also more to it post game.

It's ultimately up to you, but I enjoyed it as much(if not more) as my copy of Pearl.

Cool. I'll probably put it on my Christmas list if I don't get it before then. Wal-Mart has it with the Giratina figure for $35.

After seeing my tag-partner in the Battle Tower Salon use an Ursaring with the Guts/Toxic Orb/Facade combo get quite a few sweeps in, I've decided to train an Ursaring myself. I'm currently looking for a Jolly Teddiursa on Mt. Silver.

I rarely use Mixed Sweepers. Mainly because you have to either even out the Attack/Sp. Attack EVs or skip Speed EVs, and if you skip Speed EVs, you can get severely outsped and possibly 1HKOed. No offense or anything, but that's my honest opinion. Pretty much the only mixed thing I used in the Battle Frontier was Lickilicky with Power Whip just in case he had to fight Milotic.....

NO MORE EXCUSES! I WANT THAT HEINOUS CACTURNE HAMMERED! AND I MEAN NOW!

For me, it's just an ingame thing(Since my starter is going to have both physical and special based attacks).

Now Vulpix, I focused on getting at least alittle over 200 Sp. Atk EVs. It's not just because Ninetales gets only a modest Sp. Atk stat(81), but also because I want my Vulpix to learn Extrasensory, which is at 44. So she's going to need all the power she can get.

I'm checking they're stats. I'll see what Smeargle is in the speed department vs. Kyogre.

Kyogre is faster. But I imagine that Smeargle's Speed IVs and EVs were maxed along with a Jolly nature, while the Kyogre's EVs were focused in other areas. Judging by it's base stat spread, Kyogre looks like it's more of a Uber Bulky Water type, so most people probably focus on a Bulky Water EV spread, since it can take hits pretty well.

I'm checking they're stats. I'll see what Smeargle is in the speed department vs. Kyogre.

Kyogre is faster. But I imagine that Smeargle's Speed IVs and EVs were maxed along with a Jolly nature, while the Kyogre's EVs were focused in other areas. Judging by it's base stat spread, Kyogre looks like it's more of a Uber Bulky Water type, so most people probably focus on a Bulky Water EV spread, since it can take hits pretty well.

The Gear pokemon... I didn't look at it's type until you posted it. I did notice that it has the same abilities as Plusle and Minun.

The Chinchillla pokemon has Technician as one of it's possible abilities.

Possibly a Double Hitter? That does kinda suck that it doesn't have Pickup.

Since it's for DS, will we be able to trade Pokemon from it to the others? I heavily doubt it, cause they don't exist in DPPtHGSS. Back when DP were announced, I was hoping to trade between DPPt and RSE, not just send GBA Pokemon through the Pal Park. Think about it: owning Steven Stone with a Lucario.

My eevee is now Espeon, I'll continue to level it on and off until it's above 20.

Wow, evolved before 20? Great.

I saw a vid on YouTube of a Japanese vending machine that fills balloons with helium. However, the reason I mentioned it on this thread is because it plays 2 songs from the original Pokemon RBY during inflation: Pallet Town and Route 1. Nintendo is probably mad due to infringing copyrights.

Level 11 was when I evolved it. Alittle of the happiness boost came from Haircuts, leveling combined with the Soothe Bell. The rest came from pedaling on the bike plus the Soothe Bell. I don't have alot of money in game at the moment, so I had to do it the time consuming way(although it was still quicker than Buneary, 0 base happiness on Buneary being the reason).

As for the vending machine, who knows? It depends on how copyright laws are handled in Japan or if they got permission.

Level 11 was when I evolved it. Alittle of the happiness boost came from Haircuts, leveling combined with the Soothe Bell. The rest came from pedaling on the bike plus the Soothe Bell. I don't have alot of money in game at the moment, so I had to do it the time consuming way(although it was still quicker than Buneary, 0 base happiness on Buneary being the reason).

As for the vending machine, who knows? It depends on how copyright laws are handled in Japan or if they got permission.

Ah, Haircut Bros. No wonder you got it so high. Buneary gets 0 base happiness? No wonder she said mine looks mean, even after a stroll on the walker. Happiness evolutions are always so much more enjoyable when they're based on the miserrrrrry of millions. LOL, another edited Robotnik quote.

I don't think all the balloon vending machines play the Pokemon music. The funny thing was it was 8-bit and authentic. Oddly enough, there are obviously Pokemon balloons in Japan, yet the machine was just selling ordinary/smileyface ones. I am huge into strange Japanese culture, including vending machines, they sell everything from hot foods to hermit crabs! Not to mention those 2-clawed UFO Catchers that never pick up anything. (However, I did see someone win a Mesprit plush in a 2-clawed catcher.)

I used the haircut brothers twice, that's not enough by itself. The thing is that pedaling on the bike, although time consuming, can still get happiness up to around max in an hour(give or take some minutes) with the Soothe Bell. The Soothe Bell adds an extra point for each increase in happiness. Leveling up adds 2 points by itself without the Soothe Bell. It's a shame you can't catch Eevees in the wild, I have some Friend Balls in my inventory(I plan to catch Miltank with one, to speed up maxing Return's power).

The haircut brothers actually add random values to happiness, I just don't know how much.

Now if I had the money for Calciums and Carbos, I definetly would have used them to speed up the process.

Happiness evolutions trigger at a minimum of 220 happiness, but it's hard to tell if you're at that point(It's during it really trusts you level, second highest), so I do it until the happiness rater gives me the message for the highest rating. I remember pedaling on both Pearl and Platinum for longer with Buneary just to max it's happiness. Buneary can be encountered in swarms in HG/SS, well... Friend Balls will be great for catching them.

I, too, am into things strange and unusual. Alot of it also being Japanese.

In some cases though... I end up finding things that are too much even for me, the Korean guro game Demonophobia for example... First read of it on TVtropes, then I looked up pics and found let's plays of it on Youtube out of curiosity... It's like a train wreck... Don't want to watch, but can't look away and end up regretting it.

I've recently EV-trained Latios (yeah, it's a Legendary, sue me), Hitmonlee, and Heracross. Latios and Hitmonlee, when they have good enough TM/BP moves, will probably be part of my Battle Frontier rematch team.

Also, I saw this strange video of a Pokemon crane game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9fHat1Qbyg&feature=related

AT about 9 seconds into the video, after the "GET!" part, it sounds like the kids are saying "OOOOOOOH SH**". On the topic of Pokemon and crane games, there's this:

If Shinx was an elephant, it must have been in an horrible accident... Seeing as how it has no truck.

Now set for the 4th gym, with Espeon and Vulpix at the front lines.

LOL, good one. When will you evolve Vulpix?

I'm re-training a Starmie because my old one had very few EVs. I egg-breeded a Starmie with Surf, Ice Beam, Thunderbolt, and Psychic, plus a Hasty nature and it is alert to sounds. Speed nature + Speed characteristic + awexome egg moves = EPIC WIN.

Since it's going to be underpowered until 44, it needs what it can get. The fact that it reap the EV benefits as a Ninetales is just side benefit.

I had to speed train my Espeon, since it has a hindering nature to it's speed. Heck, my Crobat on Heartgold also had a nature that hindered speed.

Natures that hinder important stats totally make me uncomfortable. That's why I'm egg-breeding when I train Hitmonchan, because mine has a low-Attack nature.

I remember a while back you mentioned that James was similar to some character from a Yaoi (homo) anime. Still yet... Harley from the Advanced arc is the most Yaoi character in a non-Yaoi anime I have ever seen! Well, other than Kuwabara kissing Yusuke in a dream sequence in Yu Yu Hakusho.

Well, the first time I got Eevee it was a female, but it had an impish nature(Which drops special attack). I don't mind a speed dropping nature as much, provided I can fix it with EVs, but the important attack stat is a major no-no. It took me awhile to get another female and I didn't want to breed, seeing as how I already bred a Vulpix with an egg move(Energy Ball) and having less money at the moment ingame.

I'm trying to remember when and where I posted that about James... (I'll see if I can find it)

Harley definetly fits that mold.

While not about Pokemon, this is still an interesting find... You remember me mentioning Action 52?

I remember that they used part of "It takes two" by Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock.

Well, they also stole some music from The Music Factory(On the Atari ST).

I've beaten Morty, next up... Getting my 5th main team member and a Meowth with Pickup.

http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php?topic=37927.75

Found the page about James, I actually compared him to Bugs Bunny and you compared him to someone from the Gravi series.

Meowth is good for Pickup. I personally use Teddiursa, though.

In my honest opinion, James and Harley remind me of Shuichi and Ryuichi from Gravitation. Who knows: Giovanni could really be... EIRI YUKI! (I'm not the biggest Gravi fan, I mainly like the funny parts and the awexome soundtrack.)

Sharpedo is a Level 50. Pretty good stats, plus a decent moveset: Waterfall, Crunch, Ice Fang, and Aqua Jet. (2 STABs, a priority STAB, and a weapon against those Uber dragons.)

Random question: where did you get your Sgt Frog and Lucky Star DVDs? I saw both at FYE. My bro ended up getting Yu Yu Hakusho 1st Season.

I've decided to still play Pokemon SoulSilver occasionally. I've trained a Hippowdon to Level 50 for the Frontier. Wow, Hippowdon is like the bulkiest Pokemon I've ever trained! (Well, him and Lickilicky.) Attack and Special Defense EVs round him out, with the moveset Earthquake, Crunch, Thunder Fang, and Ice Fang. I highly recommend you train a Hippowdon. Even though they're very slow, they make excellent leads that take a lot of Special Attack to 1HKO. That being said, mine pretty much survived everything in the early parts of the Battle Tower.

It's HP is decent, it's special defense is average. But that is still enough to help it out.

When I battled Bertha's on Pearl, it barely survived my Chimecho's Grass Knot(Which if my Roserade knew it, it would have been KO'd), but Chimecho survived it's Crunch somehow, so I got it in the next round.

I do see that it's defenses are solid enough for it's bulkiness. Sand Stream helps it to, I know it boosts the special defense of Rock types, but I'm trying to remember if Ground types also get that boost.

(Looks it up....)

It's only Rock types. Hippowdon is a pure Ground type, so that helps alot.

The Ranma 1/2 Abridged series(just thought of it after posting in the DQ thread) also does this.

They made Ryoga Jewish, Kuno a ex-pro wrestler who sucks at acting and Akane actually gets therapeutic enjoyment out of beating the living snot of others(When she's really more of a tsundere type originally).

Yeah, mine has a no change nature, making it one of three in my party that does.

It's a Starmie now, I also opened up the second set of Unown's and got the second set of items.

I'm now at Mahogany.

Good.

Ever noticed how Japan-import stuff is EXPENSIVE?! LOL, obviously you have, seeing as your probably the greatest otaku on this site. Just went to some toy site that had various Pokemon import plush for around $20-$30 for the bigger ones! Even some of the American stuff was expensive. I have one Japanese plushie, and that would be my Pikachu from Banpresto that I got a Goodwill. (Actually, a friend got it for me.)

I've ordered a couple of games from Japan, Ranma 1/2 Super Battle and Vampire Saviour 3(Darkstalkers), I know both costed more than buying games here in the U.S., but at the time inflation and the world market were less chaotic when I got them(I think I spent 65-70 dollars for them though). Also got Dragon Quest 5 for the Super Famicom, but it was used.

So that's as far as I've been importing wise. All of my other imports were actually bought here:

Pocket Fighter(at a Babbages of all places, but Babbages was known at the time for getting occasional straight from Japan releases)Um Jammer Lammy(At a Comic Carnival, which got Japanese imports and bootlegs of anime and movies as well)A chibi plush of Yurika from Martian Successor Nadesico(which I got for 2 dollars at the same Comic Carnival)Anime soundtracks: Ranma 1/2, Urusei Yatsura, Maison Ikkoku(This one is a remix), Dragon Ball collection. I also had Mahoromatic, but it was stolen from me. Very soon I'll also have the Dragon Quest 9 soundtrack, since I won that from the second prize period.

My cousin bought the Dragon Ball Z Legends game at a Babbages, which he gave to me later when he was done with it.

I've ordered a couple of games from Japan, Ranma 1/2 Super Battle and Vampire Saviour 3(Darkstalkers), I know both costed more than buying games here in the U.S., but at the time inflation and the world market were less chaotic when I got them(I think I spent 65-70 dollars for them though). Also got Dragon Quest 5 for the Super Famicom, but it was used.

So that's as far as I've been importing wise. All of my other imports were actually bought here:

Pocket Fighter(at a Babbages of all places, but Babbages was known at the time for getting occasional straight from Japan releases)Um Jammer Lammy(At a Comic Carnival, which got Japanese imports and bootlegs of anime and movies as well)A chibi plush of Yurika from Martian Successor Nadesico(which I got for 2 dollars at the same Comic Carnival)Anime soundtracks: Ranma 1/2, Urusei Yatsura, Maison Ikkoku(This one is a remix), Dragon Ball collection. I also had Mahoromatic, but it was stolen from me. Very soon I'll also have the Dragon Quest 9 soundtrack, since I won that from the second prize period.

My cousin bought the Dragon Ball Z Legends game at a Babbages, which he gave to me later when he was done with it.

WHOA. INSANE PRICES. The only Japanese game I have is the Japanese version of YuGiOh Worldwide Edition, which you can find commonplace at Gamestop for around 5 bucks.

So he goes further than crossdressers due to that. And I noticed that I forgot the word soundtrack in my last post and using the word "at" instead of "and". I hate when I get into a hurry like that and don't my check posts before posting.

So he goes further than crossdressers due to that. And I noticed that I forgot the word soundtrack in my last post and using the word "at" instead of "and". I hate when I get into a hurry like that and don't my check posts before posting.

No prob, I usually notice then because FireFox underlines misspelled words. Wish it would underline grammar mistakes, too.

Anyways, I've been trying to extend my Battle Hall streak so I can gain BP bonuses. Too bad Gengar went down on the 18th or so battle. (I was trying to get the Dark and Ghost types out of the way first, and he ended up getting 1HKOed.)

I just finished training a Vaporeon, one of my new favorite Eeveelutions. Sure, its Speed is lacking, but over 200 HP and over 160 Sp. Attack makes it a formidable Special Tank. Moveset is Surf, Ice Beam, Shadow Ball, and Aqua Ring. Item is Leftovers. Modest nature, highly persistent (Defense).

I've been thinking about Zoroark... is Illusion optional? Because I'm not sure about if I like it or not.

Anyways, I just finished training a Rapidash as a Physical Sweeper. I lucked out and got one with a Hasty nature that was alert to sounds. It's every bit as fast as my Latios. Moveset will be Flare Blitz, Megahorn, Bounce, and Poison Jab... a Grass-type's worst nightmare. Just need 2 more Heart Scales which I will get tomorrow on the Pokewalker after playing some DDR.

Makes me wonder if it will get bumped to Ubers because of that ability.

I'll try to get to whipping Team Rocket's basksides here tommorrow. :D

Possibly, but what if you had a Zoroark in your 2nd slot? It would be Zoroark.

Finished training Rapidash. Insanely fast, it has about 165 Speed at Level 50! It may not be the strongest (only about 140-something Attack), but with Flare Blitz and Megahorn, it's an effective weapon against many types. I'm clueless about who to train next... Togekiss is pretty much screwed with unneeded EVs, Hustle, and a bad nature. I might try to egg-breed for a Timid Togepi, but it'll be heck trying to get another Shiny Stone in the Pokeathlon, not to mention 2 more Heart Scales and TMs...... I think I'll go for it, though, after I finish training Skarmory and my 2nd Starmie.

Edit: Don't mean to brag or anything, but I am trying my hardest to become a tournament-worthy trainer. I'm going all-out with natures, EVs-IVs, and hold items.

Yep, I've seen the Gardevoir fetish. In fact, I've seen others too... But that's a whole other story. :D

Team Rocket is defeated in Mahogany. I was going to fight the seventh gym next, but decided against it. This is due to the level of Vulpix being lower than Piloswine's(and the fact that Vulpix won't be evolved anytime soon). I'm guessing I don't fight Team Rocket in Goldenrod right after doing this early. I probably have to get the next two badges or so.(I've detoured in this game before)

I'll be going into Mt. Mortar to get what I can with what's available HM wise and go get the experience share after words and then trek back to Olivine and Cianwood.

Yep, I've seen the Gardevoir fetish. In fact, I've seen others too... But that's a whole other story. :D

Team Rocket is defeated in Mahogany. I was going to fight the seventh gym next, but decided against it. This is due to the level of Vulpix being lower than Piloswine's(and the fact that Vulpix won't be evolved anytime soon). I'm guessing I don't fight Team Rocket in Goldenrod right after doing this early. I probably have to get the next two badges or so.(I've detoured in this game before)

I'll be going into Mt. Mortar to get what I can with what's available HM wise and go get the experience share after words and then trek back to Olivine and Cianwood.

Yeah, better keep the others to yourself for now. Speaking of Gardevoir fetishism, that reminds me of someone on Zenius-I-Vanisher (a DDR/Beatmania site) who had a Gardevoir avatar. I can still imagine the others.... possibly Glaceon, Milotic, Roselia, Cresselia, and Ninetales?

Been stocking up on BP. My Gallade/Gengar/Lickilicky team makes short work of Palmer.

I'm going to have to trade over a Brick Break TM after I deal with Team Rocket.

Stupid Battle Tower only item.

Amen to that.

I'm going to get a Stone Edge TM for my Hippowdon to help it out in my rematch with Dahlia for the Gold Print. Stone Edge can take out Togekiss and Zapdos, while Earthquake will swallow Blaziken up. Even if Hippowdon fails, Starmie and Staraptor are sure to be of some assistance.

BTW, in your honest opinion, who is your favorite Pokemon? Not just talking about in the games, it can be for any reason. Mine is Blaziken. Blaziken is just uber-awesome. Fire and Fighting are my 2 fave types, it can leap 30-story buildings with one bound, and just like Charizard, it fights harder if the foe is stronger. Plus, its voice in the dub is epic.

That's a tough one... As I have alot of favorites, almost every type is coverage primary wise.

Hmm... Espeon comes to mind, it's actually the first Psychic type I really liked. I'll give a list of all my favorites in my next post on this thread.

http://www.serebii.net/index2.shtml

Also, there has been some art shown on Serebii. Including starter evolutions, which look pretty good(The fire starter is the only one not on the list).

Now those pictures are most likely beta, so there might be some differences in the final art.

Wow, nice evolutions, they look similar, but much more grown.

I'm currently training a Mamoswine because my Piloswine from Colloseum ended up Adamant. I've Egg-breeded to get a Modest Koffing with Sludge Bomb, Shadow Ball, and Thunderbolt (and if you've been keeping up with my posts, you should know who Koffing's mate was.), plus a Taillow with Brave Bird. However, I'm gonna have to work longer on Taillow so I can get an Adamant one.

Awhile back, that Giancarlo guy would constantly put up daily updates... Including posting fake stuff from deviantart(he knew the stuff was fake as well). Early on he wouldn't credit where he got any of the vids or pics(regardless of if were real or fake).

He was doing this mainly because he had(as well as currently) a referal deal with Play-Asia(which he got bonuses for people clicking the link and/or ordering from there).

This caused alittle internet war between him and the Pokemon HG board on Gamefaqs, which I just watched the chaos of.

Part of this was because someone would post links in threads on the board to his vids. Then it exploded.

I don't know exactly why I brought him up... I must have wanted to talk about something mildly controversial.

Awhile back, that Giancarlo guy would constantly put up daily updates... Including posting fake stuff from deviantart(he knew the stuff was fake as well). Early on he wouldn't credit where he got any of the vids or pics(regardless of if were real or fake).

He was doing this mainly because he had(as well as currently) a referal deal with Play-Asia(which he got bonuses for people clicking the link and/or ordering from there).

This caused alittle internet war between him and the Pokemon HG board on Gamefaqs, which I just watched the chaos of.

Part of this was because someone would post links in threads on the board to his vids. Then it exploded.

I don't know exactly why I brought him up... I must have wanted to talk about something mildly controversial.

Oh, OK, no prob. Didn't watch any of the vids, just saw them on there. I plan to get back to Nincada breeding later today.

He even got into it with Serebii alittle. I think he stopped with posting fakes(not too sure... mainly because I haven't checked his account since the the little war), although he did upload someone else's fan made music of B/W, he took it down after the original uploader made a note about it. He's wanting to be big in reporting news, but goes about it the wrong way part of the time(part of what he has posted was authentic though). I know he didn't take critique well, as he called anyone(who was pointing out that he uploaded fakes or unconfirmed info) haters. Ah well though.

Enough with the wild stuff... :D

Back to the game...

I'm at Blackthorn right now, I'll be taking care of the south routes and the rest of the Dark Cave before dealing with the 8th gym.

He even got into it with Serebii alittle. I think he stopped with posting fakes(not too sure... mainly because I haven't checked his account since the the little war), although he did upload someone else's fan made music of B/W, he took it down after the original uploader made a note about it. He's wanting to be big in reporting news, but goes about it the wrong way part of the time(part of what he has posted was authentic though). I know he didn't take critique well, as he called anyone(who was pointing out that he uploaded fakes or unconfirmed info) haters. Ah well though.

Enough with the wild stuff... :D

Back to the game...

I'm at Blackthorn right now, I'll be taking care of the south routes and the rest of the Dark Cave before dealing with the 8th gym.

Good job on reaching Blackthorn.

I got my Jolly Nincada by catching it in Ruby. I also sent over my Jolly Abra and Modest Kirlia to help with wild Pokemon with good natures.

Yeah, Absol actually has a solid base stat total, the only problem being it's speed(which if it was at least 20 points higher, would increase it's sweeping abilities), so I guess the odds of it getting one are fairly low. The Physical/Special split helped it greatly.

Yeah, Absol actually has a solid base stat total, the only problem being it's speed(which if it was at least 20 points higher, would increase it's sweeping abilities), so I guess the odds of it getting one are fairly low. The Physical/Special split helped it greatly.

Another video, also shows a few in battle trainer sprites towards the end.

Check out the first one they show(Which is around 5:17-5:18 mark)! It now makes me think of a certain abridged series.

Also, the person put up some annotations, some of them are pretty silly.

(Sorry for the lack of embedding, but I'm trying not to burden the site with too much of it)

WOW. This looks epic. I think that weird crossbow thingy was the new Pal Park setup. I wonder how we'll get that new Pokemon "Victini". So it's the new "cutesy legendary" and it appears to be an Electric-type... understandable. But POKEDEX DATA #000!??

A while before Toei got the idea to make a train that transformed into a robot (Travelion from Mahou Sentai Magiranger/Solar Streak Megazord from Power Rangers Mystic Force), some generic knock-off brand did this...

Also, somebody made a tune of his audio and synced it with Pokemon R/B title theme.

Yeah, seen that too. Garchomp is fully EV trained at Level 50, now I just need to get Earthquake and Stone Edge TMs. (I may use Stealth Rock instead of Stone Edge, since it's easier and I haven't really tried it that much.)

I've never had a foreign trade(I know it's obvious, since I lack Wifi). :D

Heck, a foreign trade can be used to get a shiny through the Masuda method.

Yep, I tried to get a shiny Ponyta with my Achamo through the Masuda method. Stopped after about 10 eggs, fruitless. LOL

I've entered the Wi-Fi Battle Tower a few times, getting through some battles, but getting owned forwards, backwards, and sideways other times. I just got done in by a Garchomp. This guy (Alv) used Azelf, Blissey, and Garchomp against my Hippowdon, Starmie, and Staraptor and pwned me.

I have a male Vulpix(and a Stantler too) with Energy Ball, that would be good for breeding.

Should have seen my face when I saw Emonga's typing. First thought: Finally another flying type without it's fighting type resistance neutralized by the common normal typing. I wonder if it will evolve or have decent base stats(if it doesn't).

I have a male Vulpix(and a Stantler too) with Energy Ball, that would be good for breeding.

Should have seen my face when I saw Emonga's typing. First thought: Finally another flying type without it's fighting type resistance neutralized by the common normal typing. I wonder if it will evolve or have decent base stats(if it doesn't).

Just now realized that about its typing that it nullifies Ground moves.

Currently working on training Ninetales and a newly-acquired Mismagius.

True.

This is where I got the phrase:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TastesLikeDiabetes

It basically is described as something being made superfically cute and going horribly right in process.

Whenever we do have a casual battle, I kind of want to record it. I know Platinum has a ingame recorder, does it work with wireless and wifi battles? I wouldn't mind putting on my Youtube account(when I can get access to something that will let me do upload vids).

I do have alot of Pokemon I've bred that I'll be EV training too(something I've been meaning to get back to when I'm done DQ9 and Soulsilver). I might want to add a few more for extra options though.

It basically is described as something being made superfically cute and going horribly right in process.

Whenever we do have a casual battle, I kind of want to record it. I know Platinum has a ingame recorder, does it work with wireless and wifi battles? I wouldn't mind putting on my Youtube account(when I can get access to something that will let me do upload vids).

I do have alot of Pokemon I've bred that I'll be EV training too(something I've been meaning to get back to when I'm done DQ9 and Soulsilver). I might want to add a few more for extra options though.

I visit that site a lot (tvtropes.org); I find a lot of interesting stuff there. I found it sometime earlier this year after doing a google search for something, and now I've bookmarked it!

I visit that site a lot (tvtropes.org); I find a lot of interesting stuff there. I found it sometime earlier this year after doing a google search for something, and now I've bookmarked it!

I found it after googling something on Tiny Toons. Funny thing is Pokemon Black and White aren't out yet(anywhere) and there are already tropes listed for it. Like Broken Base(this happens to alot of new expected releases).

Through it, I found out about other games, comics and the like that I never heard of before.

I found it after googling something on Tiny Toons. Funny thing is Pokemon Black and White aren't out yet(anywhere) and there are already tropes listed for it. Like Broken Base(this happens to alot of new expected releases).

Through it, I found out about other games, comics and the like that I never heard of before.

It basically is described as something being made superfically cute and going horribly right in process.

Whenever we do have a casual battle, I kind of want to record it. I know Platinum has a ingame recorder, does it work with wireless and wifi battles? I wouldn't mind putting on my Youtube account(when I can get access to something that will let me do upload vids).

I do have alot of Pokemon I've bred that I'll be EV training too(something I've been meaning to get back to when I'm done DQ9 and Soulsilver). I might want to add a few more for extra options though.

An old Cartoon Network anime, Hamtaro, qualifies for that.

Yes, you can record Wi-Fi battles. And yes, that would be epic to see the epic battle between Step-Chan and DJ Blaze on YouTube. Simply epic, regardless of who wins. But I don't intend to lose just because we're friends.

A new Pokemon was shown on Pokemon Sunday, Yannapu(which a toy of it popped up over a few months back). Also up on Serebii.

You heard about that musicals in the game? I read that someone wanted to have their Pokemon dance to NWA for lulz.(Although it's extremely doubtful that you can download licensed artist tracks for the game)

A new Pokemon was shown on Pokemon Sunday, Yannapu(which a toy of it popped up over a few months back). Also up on Serebii.

You heard about that musicals in the game? I read that someone wanted to have their Pokemon dance to NWA for lulz.(Although it's extremely doubtful that you can download licensed artist tracks for the game)

If you could import music, I would teach some of my Pokemon the Hare Hare Yukai dance.

Some people on Mugen made fighters of both him and the Colonel. There's a video of them fighting against Zoma from Dragon Quest 3.\

Man, I love Mugen. I used to play it a lot, but I put it on a CD when I started preparing for migration to my new PC. I still haven't migrated yet, but I had some good characters, like Kamen Rider Ryuki and The King Of Hyrule from the CD-I Zelda games. The games themselves may suck, but nothing's more satisfying than beating a tough fighter by throwing dinner at them.

Plan to train a Yanmega sometime soon. Currently looking for a Modest Yanma.

The insanity! What is he dressed up as near the 1 minute mark? Shaymin? A Touhou character? One of the images looks different(like is was the original, not Luigi dressed up).

Edit: The character can be seen on the right side in the preview(before starting the vid).

:D

Although admittedly, that would take all of the fun out of it.

The character that Luigi is dressed as is just another nameless character from a Beatmania IIDX background video. IIDX has too many of those. BTW, what you said about Shaymin and Touhou gave me an idea... putting Shaymin in Touhou! Its special attack could be Seed Flare Master Spark. :D

LOL. I originally didn't like the idea of Arceus, but remembering that the Pokemon world is separate from our world, I don't mind it as bad. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFQHWGADS

On to B/W...

Serebii(as well Pokejungle, etc.), have found a leak of possible starter evos. These have good chance of being fake though.

Grass: Elegant, looks like Milotic. I see it being a somewhat slow special tank.Water: It looks like...... like a bloody Water Horse! Seriously?Fire: EPIC INCARNATE. I hope its a physical sweeper, cause I could use another Fire-type psychical sweeper other than Rapidash and Blaziken.

I was reading at 4chan's(which is larger in trolling than gamefaqs, I go there when I'm bored but don't want to shut down the computer) Team Rocket board.

I forgot which Pokemon site it was, but the person who runs it doesn't believe they're real.

I've also seen people grading and looking for errors and inconsistencies in the art on several sites. Interesting to read and look at, but can also give brain damage like something else Cosby said did. :D

I was reading at 4chan's(which is larger in trolling than gamefaqs, I go there when I'm bored but don't want to shut down the computer) Team Rocket board.

I forgot which Pokemon site it was, but the person who runs it doesn't believe they're real.

I've also seen people grading and looking for errors and inconsistencies in the art on several sites. Interesting to read and look at, but can also give brain damage like something else Cosby said did. :D

YA SEE?! The kids, they listen to the rap, which gives them the brain damage. YA SEE?!

LOL, I was actually gonna nickname an Aerodactyl either Mei or Kimberly, after PteraRanger/Pink Ranger.

Go go Aero Rangers! ;D

All the the discussion over the legitimacy of the starter evos is starting to remind me of the Shaving Cream song... I'm going to make a verse off of it(but it won't pace over the original's that well) about this thing here in alittle bit.

All the the discussion over the legitimacy of the starter evos is starting to remind me of the Shaving Cream song... I'm going to make a verse off of it(but it won't pace over the original's that well) about this thing here in alittle bit.

If you post this on GameFAQs, Smugleaf will PayPal you $10 at the airport. LOL, that was so fadded out.

I see two threads on the relating Paypal and Mamanbo, one stating that if it isn't a Luvdisc evo, they pay 10$.

The other stating that if it is a Luvdisc evo, they pay 10$.

There are also two threads called "I told you"... One's for the starters being real, the other for the starters being fake.

As you know, this situation has turned into a big storm, mainly on Gamefaqs, 4chan's tr board and Serebiiforums... Makes me wish I ordered a copy now, so I could find out for myself if I got it early enough.

People on 4chan's tr board also went to 2ch to see what the Japanese users were thinking about starter situation(which took alittle time, partially because of language barrier). Turns out the Japanese users are just as confused about whether or not they're real or fake.

I see two threads on the relating Paypal and Mamanbo, one stating that if it isn't a Luvdisc evo, they pay 10$.

The other stating that if it is a Luvdisc evo, they pay 10$.

There are also two threads called "I told you"... One's for the starters being real, the other for the starters being fake.

As you know, this situation has turned into a big storm, mainly on Gamefaqs, 4chan's tr board and Serebiiforums... Makes me wish I ordered a copy now, so I could find out for myself if I got it early enough.

People on 4chan's tr board also went to 2ch to see what the Japanese users were thinking about starter situation(which took alittle time, partially because of language barrier). Turns out the Japanese users are just as confused about whether or not they're real or fake.

If I honestly had to guess, they're fake except for Mijimaru and Tsutaja's 1st evos.

Restarted Pearl due to total Action Replayed-ness. Gotten to Eterna City and I will soon go for Mt. Coronet.

The problem is that another site(from Spain)... It's called PokExperto, claims to have the game(which isn't released in Japan until late next week), dex info and such(and has been listing them in a Twitter account). It's pretty obvious he's lieing.

As if dealing with the UFCW Local 700 trying to unionize my place of employment weren't stressing enough(Due to complications in the past I want nothing to do with them).

Thought I'd mention why I feel things are off and most likely fake with the 4 unconfirmed evos(which could just be a false reading from my intuition though, we'll need find out for sure next week).

Gen 5 has now become the year of fakemon. There has been more fakes popping up in between legit info this time around than in the past. I know gen 3 and 4 didn't have this much in terms of fakemon being made. At least a few fake Corocoro scans, multiple silhouettes, faked gameplay sprites and pics(not vids though) have popped up like crazy. Serebii even have some of these for awhile until he found out(and he wasn't the only one).

While anything can happen, I find that these leaked "evos" were found alittle too convieniently to possibly be real.

Amen to that. BTW, CARD GAMES ON MOTORCYCLES!!!!!!!!

In America!!!

Oh, that reminds me! In an interview(from the Pokemon Pia book) with the creators of the series, it turns out that Isshu was apparently based on Western themes. Also the starters are routed in different region mythology:

Thought I'd mention why I feel things are off and most likely fake with the 4 unconfirmed evos(which could just be a false reading from my intuition though, we'll need find out for sure next week).

Gen 5 has now become the year of fakemon. There has been more fakes popping up in between legit info this time around than in the past. I know gen 3 and 4 didn't have this much in terms of fakemon being made. At least a few fake Corocoro scans, multiple silhouettes, faked gameplay sprites and pics(not vids though) have popped up like crazy. Serebii even have some of these for awhile until he found out(and he wasn't the only one).

While anything can happen, I find that these leaked "evos" were found alittle too convieniently to possibly be real.

In America!!!

Oh, that reminds me! In an interview(from the Pokemon Pia book) with the creators of the series, it turns out that Isshu was apparently based on Western themes. Also the starters are routed in different region mythology:

Check out Serebii.... the evolutions were real. And we get another SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I was tempted to have two Fighting-types (Infernape and Lucario), but I decided against that. I don't want to have to go through another friendship evolution, Budew is killing me.

I remember training a Budew into a Roserade on Pearl, I wish I had a Luxury ball at that point.

Something else just popped in my mind. PokExperto, who I thought was lying at first about having the info, was actually telling the truth. The reasons for my doubts were due to the all the previous fakes, though.

I remember training a Budew into a Roserade on Pearl, I wish I had a Luxury ball at that point.

Something else just popped in my mind. PokExperto, who I thought was lying at first about having the info, was actually telling the truth. The reasons for my doubts were due to the all the previous fakes, though.

I might scrap Roserade for Kadabra, but then I'd have 2 Psychic types... ah, I'll replace Bronzong with Hippowdon, I need a Ground type. I might also replace Drifblim with Mismagius.

In Gold and Silver you could catch Pikachu in the wild(although not until Kanto), but you couldn't catch Pichu. You had to breed to get one.

Same way with Marill in Gen 3(although it's a Gen 2 Pokemon), catch in it the wild, but not Azurill(which required an essence to get).

Neither of us know for sure... They could be evos, but it won't be possible until post game(since you run into them in the wild).

Ah, I gotcha.

But what I really want is new evolutions for older, not-reached-potential Pokemon, and an easy way to find older Pokemon post-game. DPt had Poke Radar/Outbreaks/Trophy Garden, HGSS had Safari Zone/Radio/Outbreaks.

I can understand that. Farfetch'd, Luvdisc, Pachirisu and such really are gimmicks at the moment due to the lack of evos.

I realized that this is the first time I've watched a new gen unfold through the use of the internet. I didn't in gens 3 and 4(for different reasons).

Hmm.... those are all good choices. I originally also wanted Jynx and Mr. Mime evolutions, but they're good at the moment. (Although I did see fanmade evos called Princice and Mastermime that looked cool.)

I think Eevee could use a Steel-type evo. Plus we need a good 95-power physical Steel move! Heck, 95-power physical and special moves for all types that don't have them!

De gozaimasu is used to signify politeness/humbleness, like desu, but stronger. I also heard that Mega Drain has 75 power. Imagine what Giga Drain has now!

Ah, cool. Serebii also has a list of base stat on the final forms of everything. Emonga, the electric rodent of this new gen, is abit stronger offensively than Pachirisu; having 30 more points in both it's attack and special attack, adding up to 75 each. Since it's fast, that's not too bad, falling into the average area.

And Mold Breaker is one of it's abilities as well, making it bypass abilites that grant immunity to certain attacks... Although, unlike Garchomp, it won'tl get STAB on Earthquake(not that it really needs it with it's 147 attack base stat). The biggest difference between it and Garchomp stat wise is that it's slighty slower and less bulky and sturdy.

Pictures from the E4 have popped up(man some people really fly through the games fast) from what I've seen. You might have already seen them.

1. Emboar? Spelled like that in the Japanese version?2. A main villain uses a legendary? HOLY SHAVING CREAM!3. Some of the TMs have changed. No wonder you can't import items. So far so good with a ton of old faves. I just hope we keep Earthquake.4. CYNTHIA!!!!!!

On another note: Serebii, Pokebeach and other sites have received a letter from NoA to take down the pictures of B/W off of their sites. They still have worded info up.

Man, that sucks, but they still have their banner at the top.

I'm somewhat disappointed in the new bird Kenhorou. It's 15 attack and 7 speed less than Staraptor. I don't see it being used in competitive play. I'm doing further analysis/comparisons for the new Pokemon. I'll keep you informed.

On a side note, Kenhorou does get Super Luck, which could give it an edge over Staraptor, but doubtful.

Further analysis: Man, the Kibago evo is stronger than Garchomp?! : ??? And on a side note, I'm not sure if I'll pick Pokabu now that I've seen Emboar's stats. I may pick Smugleaf Tsutaja or Mijimaru and use Hihidaruma, who is more my kind of Pokemon. 140 attack is inhuman, and 95 speed is very usable. Oh yeah, and forget Kenhorou, it doesn't get Brave Bird unless it's an egg move.

They at least have the worded info from the games still up, it's nice to know what the Mischievious Heart ability does. I think it was because they were playing the ROM and not the actual game. Bulbapedia last I checked didn't get a letter(last night, although now that I check again... they still haven't), but they've been low key with the info anyway. Melkor(Pokexperto) might have gotten in trouble too.

The weird thing with Serebii's situation is that Nintendo of America sent him the letter. Serebii lives in England, although his site is hosted in Texas.

Mamepato's final evo might make it as high as the BL tier for alittle bit in the competitive scene, but it probably won't last long(unless it gets a pretty effective setup to make it work that is unknown of at the moment).

Yeah, Kibago's final evo is stronger than Garchomp in attack, by 17 points I think. It is, however... slower than Garchomp by 5 points in speed. It's abit less bulky than Garchomp, mainly in HP and Special defense. But it could still become an uber, mainly due to only having 2x Ice and Dragon weaknesses, I imagine it getting some use in the Focus Sash/Yache Berry area, unless most deem that unnecessary(since a Choice Scarf would be far better).

With Pokabu, it would be fairly rough without EVs in both of it's defense stats. Something else I noticed is that all final forms of each starter can go pretty much with moves that are based on either attack stat, I wonder how much of that was intentional.

The ROM was out for a while before the game came out, although no one did vids of it in fear of DMCA. I'm seeing a lot of Choice Scarf action in Wi-Fi Battle Tower. If I see something like a Glaceon outspeed my Timid Gengar, I'll know it's a Choice Scarf. Gengar did survive its Blizzard with 1 HP. No, no Focus Sash, I use Wide Lens on Gengar for its Focus Blast. (Though I should change it to Zoom Lens because I primarily use Focus Blast on types it's super effective against) My Gengar does have the Somewhat Vain characteristic which boosts Special Defense.

Well, enough about my Wi-Fi adventures, back to BW. I've noticed some of the Elite 4 members have pokemon like Bronzong and Frosslass on their teams. It's not fair that we can't get old Pokemon but they can! Also, this appears to be the hardest Pokemon yet, because their levels are in the 70s. Maybe I was looking at the rematch details, though... I've decided not to pick Pokabu and probably go with Mijimaru.

Here's my BW team so far:

Most likely confirmed:DaikenkiKenhorou Hihidaruma

Maybe:Desukan (desu desu desu desu desu desu desu desu)The Kibago evo (if I have the patience to evolve it)The other starters if I can get them in the GTS

I probably won't use any legendaries in the main game, although those genies sure are tempting me.

Speaking of legendaries, here's all I can say about the Bug/Steel event legendary... IMMA FIRIN MAH LAZOR!!!

People have been emailing NOA over their desist letters sent to Serebii and Pokebeach(started on Pokejungle).

I have thought about having you and my nephew(and maybe some others...) help me in forming a team. I'm not 100% sure I'll do that, since this is a new game with Pokes I've never trained before, but I'm considering it(it would be a temporary file like Heartgold). Of course, this will wait until next year when the games are out over here if I do.

People have been emailing NOA over their desist letters sent to Serebii and Pokebeach(started on Pokejungle).

I have thought about having you and my nephew(and maybe some others...) help me in forming a team. I'm not 100% sure I'll do that, since this is a new game with Pokes I've never trained before, but I'm considering it(it would be a temporary file like Heartgold). Of course, this will wait until next year when the games are out over here if I do.

That depends on how I want to do it, I'm also a member at the B/W clan board. So if I do it I'll probably be limiting it to one choice per person(Although I'll limit it to 5 people picking one each if done that way, that way I also pick at least one). Plus I won't know what starter will be picked, whether I pick it or not.

We've got time if I do plan it.

How it will go if I decide to go with it:

I pick one(I'll probably pick last... To see if a starter gets chosen first).My nephew picks one.You and another inthe00s member picks one each.2 B/W clan members pick one each(I just hope no one says anything works ingame there, because that's not the point of little setup).

It was interesting going through Heartgold with the way it was setup, which was why I've been thinking about doing it again.

That depends on how I want to do it, I'm also a member at the B/W clan board. So if I do it I'll probably be limiting it to one choice per person(Although I'll limit it to 5 people picking one each if done that way, that way I also pick at least one). Plus I won't know what starter will be picked, whether I pick it or not.

We've got time if I do plan it.

How it will go if I decide to go with it:

I pick one(I'll probably pick last... To see if a starter gets chosen first).My nephew picks one.You and another inthe00s member picks one each.2 B/W clan members pick one each(I just hope no one says anything works ingame there, because that's not the point of little setup).

It was interesting going through Heartgold with the way it was setup, which was why I've been thinking about doing it again.

Good idea. I'll have to study more on base stats and moves before I decide. I'll probably go with Hihidaruma. Wargle looks cool, but I'm not sure on stats. I know he uses Brave Bird since I saw it in a YT vid for the battle withSPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!

Done some studying... Zekrom and Reshiram look beast... 150 primary offensive base stat, 90 speed (could be a little better), and 130 power moves. Uber for sure. Desukan (the coffin) looks like another Dusknoir. Hihidaruma will be OU, Wargle will be BL.

I just went on 4chan's Pokemon board. Someone had a thread up with a picture of Scrappy Doo from Scooby Doo.

You know the ability Scrappy, which allows the Pokemon to hit ghost types with normal and fighting attacks?

Someone made a connection to Scrappy Doo who always wanted to spar with the alleged ghosts in the cartoons.

Looks like the localizers wanted to do a shout out or pop culture reference(The original Japanese title of the Scrappy ability is Spunk). I need to look that up on Bulbapedia and tvtropes to see if they have that there.

I just went on 4chan's Pokemon board. Someone had a thread up with a picture of Scrappy Doo from Scooby Doo.

You know the ability Scrappy, which allows the Pokemon to hit ghost types with normal and fighting attacks?

Someone made a connection to Scrappy Doo who always wanted to spar with the alleged ghosts in the cartoons.

Looks like the localizers wanted to do a shout out or pop culture reference(The original Japanese title of the Scrappy ability is Spunk). I need to look that up on Bulbapedia and tvtropes to see if they have that there.

Now that you mention it, that does make a lot of sense. I'm gonna hit TVtropes sometime today and look into some more stuff.

I only have one that isn't a shiny red Gyarados... It's Caterpie, which I caught in the bug catching contest in Heartgold(won with it too, must have had a decent IV spread along with the shiny bonus). I traded it over to my Platinum file.

Include 2 Pokemon in your party: Wobbufet/Wynaut and Lileep/Cradily/Octillery. Wobbufet's Shadow Tag blocks moves like Abra's Teleport, and the other 3 Pokes' Suction Cups prevents Roar and Whirlwhind. At least I think it does on the last part.

That's not much of flaw(with both of them having a quad weakness to a differnet element), mainly with it being the best I think of with what I was willing to train... Considering that one's subtype and the other is primary(with Dragon as a sub). Plus, I can have Flygon take on some other moves for types I don't have(Flamethrower for example).

Plus, I had two Pokemon in HG(the one with team constructed by me, you and my nephew) with Rock typing and Poison typing(since the rule was no primary types are allowed to match, but subtypes are different).

That's not much of flaw(with both of them having a quad weakness to a differnet element), mainly with it being the best I think of with what I was willing to train... Considering that one's subtype and the other is primary(with Dragon as a sub). Plus, I can have Flygon take on some other moves for types I don't have(Flamethrower for example).

Plus, I had two Pokemon in HG(the one with team constructed by me, you and my nephew) with Rock typing and Poison typing(since the rule was no primary types are allowed to match, but subtypes are different).

Ah, I get it, no prob.

I've been checking out some of the base stats for the new Pokemon... still shocked that Hihidaruma is almost as physically powerful as Groudon. Zekrom is as physically powerful as Groudon, Reshiram is as specially powerful as Kyogre, and just a few points shy of Mewtwo and Darkrai. The fighting beast trio look pretty good. A little underpowered for sweepers, but they get good HP. Sacred Sword is a great move, but it'll probably get outclassed by Close Combat.

I haven't looked too much at the base stats for legendaries. I have, however... noticed how powerful some of the non legendaries are. The ghost/fire type's final form(Shanderaa I think) has a massive 140 base special attack(it's speed is 80, so it's middle ground in that regard)... Ouch...

You probably heard that Bel was the E4 champ alittle while back... It turned out not to be the case, how it circulated was the fact that the game has dummied data(inaccessible in other words) of her being the champ. Would have been interesting if she was one though(considering what her personality is like).

Found it interesting that there wasn't a forced character select in B/W period, considering how the first gym works(being based on your starter of choice)... Although considering that they haven't done it since gen 2, except for D/P's minor muck up due to the low number of fire types(although this is less based on the gyms and more on the last part of the game, with Rapidash being the only other fire type option... Fortunately fixed in Platinum).

Now I'm in the mood to compare forced character selections(and lack there of as well) here shortly.

I looked through TVtropes and noticed how they're now doing the Pokemon B&W stuff, by having it in folders for less clutter.

Also noticed in the Expy area that they compared Churine and Monmen as Oddish and Bellsprout expies.

While I agree that the Churine line is a Oddish line expy of sorts, I feel that the Monmen line is more along the lines of a Hoppip line expy(they're both cotton based Pokemon).

Now for something I wanted to post about on here for abit:

I have at least three Pokemon related parody ideas for original songs.

The first is one of the ones I've been meaning to write and finish. It goes to the the Black Market Flowers' Kenny and Cleo(the song I was lyrically transcribing here on the inthe00s in another thread).

The second goes to a Bloodhound Gang song, of course the Bloodhound Gang are known more for their raunchy songs. I don't know if I can post the title, it's in military code from a certain bad word.

The third goes to the Cowboy Junkies song Miles From Our Home. I can't really do this one until after Pokemon B&W are released here in the U.S. next year.

I looked through TVtropes and noticed how they're now doing the Pokemon B&W stuff, by having it in folders for less clutter.

Also noticed in the Expy area that they compared Churine and Monmen as Oddish and Bellsprout expies.

While I agree that the Churine line is a Oddish line expy of sorts, I feel that the Monmen line is more along the lines of a Hoppip line expy(they're both cotton based Pokemon).

Now for something I wanted to post about on here for abit:

I have at least three Pokemon related parody ideas for original songs.

The first is one of the ones I've been meaning to write and finish. It goes to the the Black Market Flowers' Kenny and Cleo(the song I was lyrically transcribing here on the inthe00s in another thread).

The second goes to a Bloodhound Gang song, of course the Bloodhound Gang are known more for their raunchy songs. I don't know if I can post the title, it's in military code from a certain bad word.

The third goes to the Cowboy Junkies song Miles From Our Home. I can't really do this one until after Pokemon B&W are released here in the U.S. next year.

Just something I've been meaning to mention.

I'll go to TVTropes later tonight to check out their BW page. And good luck with your parodies.

It also made certain gyms, mainly Sabrina's, a nightmare to deal with... as if having no good SE's on Psychic wasn't bad enough(There was a way to deal with it though, mainly hard hitting physical attackers... but things can easily go wrong).

Also due to the stat experience system, which only existed in the first two gens, made link battling abit long. Admitting, the stat experience system was good for ingame, since it enforced the rule "anything works ingame" to an even higher degree(by being able to max out all the stats on your Pokemon, less powerful ones were easier to go through the game with).

It also made certain gyms, mainly Sabrina's, a nightmare to deal with... as if having no good SE's on Psychic wasn't bad enough(There was a way to deal with it though, mainly hard hitting physical attackers... but things can easily go wrong).

Also due to the stat experience system, which only existed in the first two gens, made link battling abit long. Admitting, the stat experience system was good for ingame, since it enforced the rule "anything works ingame" to an even higher degree(by being able to max out all the stats on your Pokemon, less powerful ones were easier to go through the game with).

I remember going through the original games and yeesh, the old stat system setup was wonky, Ghost was supposed to be SE against Psychic types first gen, but a bug caused Psychics to be immune to it. Fortunately alot of things were fixed by second gen.

Oh, LOL... Someone's acting like Geechisu on a thread from Pokemon B&W on 4chan's /vp/ board, it's kinda funny. Especially since someone else is posting as N on the same thread(either that or it's the same person). Also, someone's using pics of Dr. Wily asking questions. Some of it is kinda dirty though... But, heck it's 4chan... Comes with the territory.

On Pokemon Ruby, I beat the 4th gym(next time I'm using X specials to help out... Stupid Torkoal Body Slam paralysis hax).

Have got the final member of my team, Yotsuba the Trapinch! Now I need to level her.

I've decided that I will do the "choose my team" plan for Pokemon B&W. I'll post the rules now, so I can back them up in PMs.

1. Two Pokemon family lines get picked on inthe00s.2. Two Pokemon family lines get picked on the PokemonBWclan board.3. My nephew picks a Pokemon family line.4. I pick a Pokemon family line(I'm doing this last, mainly dependent on the what gets picked for me in other areas)5. No two Pokemon can share the same primary type, if one has a sub type that's the same as a primary type, I'll allow it.6. No two Pokemon can share the Flying type.7. Only one Pokemon that needs to be traded to evolve is allowed at the most(I'm getting both versions, but I'll need help in evolving unless I start a temp file go through it until trading is accessible).8. The Pokemon have to be available in the version I'm playing too.9. One site gets to choose whether I play as the boy or girl.10. The other site gets to name the character I'll be playing as, keep the name tasteful.

I'll be deciding which site goes first choosing by doing a coin flip. Also, keep a few different Pokemon lines in mind in case one you choose gets pick or another of the same type does. It's also too early choose right now, as the majority of all english names are unknown(minus Zekrom and Reshiram), again this is just so I can have the rules in back up.

It's abit premature to choose, so hold off for now(plus you only truly get to pick one, since this is different than the first one, unless I can't find someone else on this site to pick the second one ). ;)

Plus knowing the English names first will make it easier.

Keep something else in mind for when it happens, just in case. BWClan might get to pick first if the coin flip goes in their favor.

Norman's been defeated(Aron's pretty good at walling while using X items). Spoink's HP type is Ice, which is good due to the limited movepool options the Spoink line gets offensively(Shockwave being the only other move I taught it).

It's abit premature to choose, so hold off for now(plus you only truly get to pick one, since this is different than the first one, unless I can't find someone else on this site to pick the second one ). ;)

Plus knowing the English names first will make it easier.

Keep something else in mind for when it happens, just in case. BWClan might get to pick first if the coin flip goes in their favor.

Norman's been defeated(Aron's pretty good at walling while using X items). Spoink's HP type is Ice, which is good due to the limited movepool options the Spoink line gets offensively(Shockwave being the only other move I taught it).

Oh, OK, I'll wait. And I think I know two people who could pick other than me on InThe00s: Max Power and Loki.

Speaking of Pokemon names. I've been thinking of which ones might stay the same and which ones might not(well, mainly when I'm bored).

Chillarmy could, but I'm not sure of it's evo.

Emonga might, due to every Pikachu-esque rodent keeping their names so far.

Pokabu's final form might, but I'm highly unsure of it's first too forms.

You've got a very good point there. I'm pretty sure Emonga will keep it's name. Chillarmy is a possibility. I'm almost 100% sure Emboar will remain, but it's other two forms... Piglit and Pignition FTW!

Oh, OK, I'll wait. And I think I know two people who could pick other than me on InThe00s: Max Power and Loki.

I did word the first two rules vaguely, since I meant two people from each site, so my bad too. ;)

You can still keep those in mind though, just keep a third in mind in case the other board gets to pick first.(Since it's just going to be two picks from each board Pokemon wise, plus someone picking which trainer on one site while the other gets to name it)

I might make some additions to the rules for more picks as well.

I notice that you like Hihidaruma.

You've got a very good point there. I'm pretty sure Emonga will keep it's name. Chillarmy is a possibility. I'm almost 100% sure Emboar will remain, but it's other two forms... Piglit and Pignition FTW!

Those two could be possibilities name wise. I seen someone call Doreida(White version Grass type exclusive) Florasol, which would be funny if it actually gets called that(Which would mean Nintendo's translation team either got a coincidence or they frequent 4chan or some gaming board).

Darumakka and Hihidaruma could keep their names too... Not too sure though. I notice that alot of legendaries post 1st gen have kept their original names more or less.

I did word the first two rules vaguely, since I meant two people from each site, so my bad too. ;)

You can still keep those in mind though, just keep a third in mind in case the other board gets to pick first.(Since it's just going to be two picks from each board Pokemon wise, plus someone picking which trainer on one site while the other gets to name it)

I might make some additions to the rules for more picks as well.

I notice that you like Hihidaruma.

Those two could be possibilities name wise. I seen someone call Doreida(White version Grass type exclusive) Florasol, which would be funny if it actually gets called that(Which would mean Nintendo's translation team either got a coincidence or they frequent 4chan or some gaming board).

Darumakka and Hihidaruma could keep their names too... Not too sure though. I notice that alot of legendaries post 1st gen have kept their original names more or less.

Good observations with the names. And yes, I do like Hihidaruma. 140 ATK, 95 Speed, and a great movepool.

I was wondering this because a Mew is obtainable right now through Wifi and I'd like to know whether or not Wifi hotspots are compatible with the DS(It should be an obvious answer, but I don't want to go down to Borders and use their's and find out it isn't).

I was wondering this because a Mew is obtainable right now through Wifi and I'd like to know whether or not Wifi hotspots are compatible with the DS(It should be an obvious answer, but I don't want to go down to Borders and use their's and find out it isn't).

I think some are, but the ones I've tried didn't work. One couldn't connect, and the other would connect but wouldn't work when I tried actual games.

I think some are, but the ones I've tried didn't work. One couldn't connect, and the other would connect but wouldn't work when I tried actual games.

That's the only problem, I did go out today to find out if Gamestop sold Wifi plug ins for computers. That was a mistake(as is with doing several things involving Gamestop minus pre-orders), mainly because they at first thought that I meant for the DS itself(which was dumb because I used the word "computer" in my sentences). They also mentioned that I could use the one at the food court(didn't have my DS anyway). They also told me I'd have to talk to my net provider about it, but I still need an adaptor either way regardless of what they said.

I also talked to a Border's employee, he said it should work(I'll try at Border's soon, although I'm nervous about trying at the food court, mainly due to the possibility of being mugged by soon bold idiot). Nintendo needs to make more wireless events, this is annoying.

I just noticed my grammar errors from my previous place(I was abit tired and still irritated after coming back).

Trust me, I had trouble at first.

One of the places I went to today was already closed, the other I decided not to go into was a bar(I thought it was supposed to be a cafe... judging by it's title), places like that frown on loitering. Bar's tend to cost alot too, which was why I decided against it.

I'm going to need to write down some stuff on the help site in case it help me get through.

Also read that things like cell phones can interupt WiFi signals.

Weirdly enough, a wifi option showed up here at home when I tried it out of curiousity(but I still couldn't get it to connect). It didn't show up on a second attempt though, but it wouldn't be a bad idea to see if I can get it again. I might get lucky.

Okay, after looking at a few things... There is really nothing I can write down to try when getting a connect to wifi.

Borders is non WEP type, so unless it's just incompatible with the b type(forgot the number in the name) of wireless then I outta luck with getting Mew(or two of them, assuming I get lucky with both my files).

The Celebi and Shiny legendaries better be a store run wireless event here in the U.S. if I don't have wifi at home before then.

I read someone say Oshawa(to cross a river) is probably the origin of Oshawott.

Snivy was also the second most popular starter nickname, only Smugleaf was top.

I'll laugh if the mid form is Smugleaf. That would mean the localizers do look on the net for name ideas from time to time. This will be pratically confirmed(or a huge coincedence) if Doredia becomes Florasol and Erufuun becomes Dandelamb(Which I've seen as a fan name as well as Snuggleseed, which is too long of a name).

I'm going by Flareonstepchan on there. They just have to review it first(They shouldn't have any problems with me though).

Since I know I'm getting Pokemon Black, I'll be starting up the team selection threads on both sites in the near future(even though there aren't many english names known yet, I'll simply update them when I find out).

I will be doing a coin toss to decide which site goes first in the decisions. So don't make the choice just yet, but keep three different types in mind just in case(since each site only gets two Pokemon picks, you'll still have one).

All I need is two more volunteers here on inthe00s(one for another ingame Pokemon and one for trainer gender or name, depending on which site goes first).

I'm going by Flareonstepchan on there. They just have to review it first(They shouldn't have any problems with me though).

Since I know I'm getting Pokemon Black, I'll be starting up the team selection threads on both sites in the near future(even though there aren't many english names known yet, I'll simply update them when I find out).

I will be doing a coin toss to decide which site goes first in the decisions. So don't make the choice just yet, but keep three different types in mind just in case(since each site only gets two Pokemon picks, you'll still have one).

All I need is two more volunteers here on inthe00s(one for another ingame Pokemon and one for trainer gender or name, depending on which site goes first).

I'll make my choice after (if) I hear the choices from the other site.

On the topic of B/W, ever notice that the Stealth Rock TM is completely missing? That'll cause an outcry by the billions of Stealth Rockers on Smogon.

I found out about that awhile back. Although this won't stop people from sending over their Pokemon that have the move. Stealth Rock is pretty centralizing though, I think there are only 2 or 3 Fire types in OU due to the obscene damage it does(if it was weaker, it wouldn't be too big of deal), although Fire is abit weak on defense due to water and ground moves being very common(Rock alittle less so). Kinda funny, when considering the sleep clauses and evasion clauses(well, the latter one I can understand).

Garchomp was banned to Ubers on there. I remember seeing threads and videos that were complaining(nevermind the fact that they could just set up their own rules elsewhere).

I remember one time someone on 4chan's Pokemon board complaining about Erufuun with the Mischievous Heart ability(which gives the Pokemon +1 priority when using non attacking moves, only priority moves like Quick Attack and Aqua Jet override it). Someone was also complaining on Smogon about Erufuun and that ability, asking for a support clause.

Yep, Hatsune Miku in a Santa suit. For the Christmas avatar contest. I just hope that when it's time to remove her as my avatar, she won't sing me an uber-fast farewell song like this.... LOLhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra6_6gOGK6E

Indeed, if it was on PS3, there should be a Platinum trophy just for beating that song.

On the topic of Vocaloid, heard of a game called Project Diva? It's an arcade rhythm-action game featuring music by Hatsune Miku and other Vocaloids. The gameplay could be considered a cross between Pop'n Music and the guard phase of Gitaroo-Man.

Back to Pokemon, I noticed in Best Wishes, Ash now has all 3 starters. And his Mamepato is a girl, much to his surprise.

His Chikorita/Bayleef, Gliscor(I think), and Aipom/Ambipom(traded to Dawn) are as well.

Hmm, I knew Bayleef was, but Gliscor and Ambipom? Weird. I think May's Blaziken is a boy, but I'm not sure. We know Sceptile is because it was in love with a female Meganium, and Marshtomp is because it was in love with a female Flaaffy, but we don't know Blaziken's gender yet.

Speaking of Blaziken in the anime, the one belonging to Rafe in the Deoxys movie was awesome. He went all-out against the Deoxys clones and even used his jumping power to power the windmills!

I got the Pokemon TCG HGSS Series Collection as a Christmas present... first pack I opened and I got Lugia Legend (upper half): a card so ultra-rare that it takes 2 cards to put the whole card together. I have the upper half, I need the lower.

My family wasn't able to give me mine yet, although it's just money, so no hurry. Although someone on Woodus mentioned that Nintendo stopped making Wifi adapters, I'll either have to find one used or look into wireless internet options.

As for what I got them:

Zeke(Gohanzo1): PS2 controller, a few packs of Yu-Gi-Oh(A rare card he was looking for happened to be in one of them) and Mint Chocolate M&Ms.My Dad: Angel(CD of a band with some of the members of KISS), AC/DC Live at Donnington DVD and a 2 Liter of Cream Soda.My Sister: Hairdryer and Kit Kats(She only asked for a hairdryer).

That's one of the tamer ones too, I made sure to be careful in my choice of linking as quite abit of the others are more suggestive with the use of gijinka versions of the Pokemon. All of the vids use the same song too.

I've gotten alittle tired of /vp/ on 4chan(Although I do take quick peeks at the board still) as of late and am now lurking and reading in /co/(comics and cartoons).

That's one of the tamer ones too, I made sure to be careful in my choice of linking as quite abit of the others are more suggestive with the use of gijinka versions of the Pokemon. All of the vids use the same song too.

I've gotten alittle tired of /vp/ on 4chan(Although I do take quick peeks at the board still) as of late and am now lurking and reading in /co/(comics and cartoons).

That was epic beyond words. Instead of using Rush as a platform, she uses leek... AWESOME. That guy should do Miku Man 10 for PS3. It could have Miku and Teto playable (Teto would replace Protoman), and Rin Kagamine could be downloadable like they did with Bass.

On the topic of Pokemon, my bro is getting the both of us Shiny Raikou tomorrow on his lunch break!!!

I thought Raikou went til the 9th, then Entei started the day afterward. Anyways, my bro's coming home now with 3 Raikous altogether: one on my SoulSilver, one on my Pearl, and one on his Diamond. It'd be something if I got Adamant and Jolly ones and he got a Modest/Timid one... but I'm hoping for a good-natured one.

Edit: Got them! Turns out both of them are Rash, which boosts Special Attack, so I'm happy. I'll leave the one on Pearl as is for a collector's item, and train the other one on SoulSilver and replace all the moves but Aura Sphere.

The Capsule Princess part is correct, but it might be a game or something like that... I'm not for certain now.

A few of the other Pokemon ones are pretty funny. Desukan for instances, changes the pitch of the song to make it sound spooky and demonic, plus Desukan turns into SSJ Broly at point.

They even have one for N. At one point Bel accidently hits N with medicine and N turns into a girl because of it. The medicine must of had water from the spring of drowned girl in it(Ranma 1/2 reference).

The Capsule Princess part is correct, but it might be a game or something like that... I'm not for certain now.

A few of the other Pokemon ones are pretty funny. Desukan for instances, changes the pitch of the song to make it sound spooky and demonic, plus Desukan turns into SSJ Broly at point.

They even have one for N. At one point Bel accidently hits N with medicine and N turns into a girl because of it. The medicine must of had water from the spring of drowned girl in it(Ranma 1/2 reference).

OMG it's from Pop'n Music, one of Konami's BEMANI games. Can't believe I didn't notice that. Pop'n is a game where you slap huge buttons in time to the music. Some of the songs are INTENSE.

Something I noticed with the team selection bestowed on me is that both Darmanitan and Sazandora's prevos have Hustle as their abilities, that's going to make battling(unless I use special attacks, but that only works good with Sazandora's prevos, Darumakka has really low special attack) even more reliant on the RNG(nothing like moves having 80% of their base accuracy).

:D

Oh well, I made it through Heartgold with a Ariados on my team, I'll make it through this too.

Something I noticed with the team selection bestowed on me is that both Darmanitan and Sazandora's prevos have Hustle as their abilities, that's going to make battling(unless I use special attacks, but that only works good with Sazandora's prevos, Darumakka has really low special attack) even more reliant on the RNG(nothing like moves having 80% of their base accuracy).

:D

Oh well, I made it through Heartgold with a Ariados on my team, I'll make it through this too.

I beat Palmer with a Lickilicky on my team. If I can do that, anyone anywhere can do anything.

Well, Lickilicky does have more going for it than Ariados in some areas. Although Palmer is also harder than ingame trainers(due to the battle tower hax).

And at least there will only be one Hustle-mon at a time, due to Monozu not being catchable until late game.

I actually thought that Hustle affected the accuracy of special attack moves too, until I read otherwise.

It's a shame that Darumakka doesn't learn a couple of perfect accuracy moves.

I wonder... due X accuracies still positively affect Pokemon with Hustle?

Probably. But still not up to regular, non-Hustle standards.

Off-topic quickie: how far have you watched Lucky Star? I've watched 3 and a half episodes, plus many different clips. And also, Angol Fear in Soul Calibur 4 was created by the manga artist who did Sgt. Frog.

I remember who they had on the Super Mario 3 cartoons, Milli Vanilla was in one of the episodes. After the controversy and confession happened, the songs were edited(cheesily edited at that, using an instrumental melody as a replacement).

I remember who they had on the Super Mario 3 cartoons, Milli Vanilla was in one of the episodes. After the controversy and confession happened, the songs were edited(cheesily edited at that, using an instrumental melody as a replacement).

Milli Vanilla? I remember in the Super Mario World episode "Rock TV" King Koopa had "Vanilla Ice Age" on Rock TV, who jumped out and danced to a instrumental of "Ice Ice Baby". During this, one of the cavepeople shouted "Ice Age Baby!"

Also, this quote pretty much speaks LOLWUT for itself.

(Mario and Luigi come home to Dome Castle with a Rock TV)Toadstool: Well you can count me out. Yoshi and I are going for a nature walk.Yoshi: But!... (Toadstool grabs Yoshi's arm and drags him away)Mario: Hey, maybe we'll see you on PBS!

I usually look for video games, web comics and cartoons, but I have looked through movies and the like.

Finding Demonophobia was sort of like an accident, I even forgot what trope led to it. Then my curiosity got the better of me(looking up more info on it) and I ended up seeing it in my sleep that night(I wish this would happen far more often with things I actually like).

I usually look for video games, web comics and cartoons, but I have looked through movies and the like.

Finding Demonophobia was sort of like an accident, I even forgot what trope led to it. Then my curiosity got the better of me(looking up more info on it) and I ended up seeing it in my sleep that night(I wish this would happen far more often with things I actually like).

You know how the original Gen 1 games were so poorly programmed(the amount of glitches are the biggest clue)... I'm not completely sure, but that might be the reason for the 3 year gap between the Japanese and international releases(well, that and using the revamped graphics of the third Japanese version).

The newest Nintendo Power is out and talks about Pokemon Black and White(well, it's pretty close to release, so no surprise there).

I need to change "Gochiruzeru" to "Gothitelle" in my sig, since that name is confirmed.

You know how the original Gen 1 games were so poorly programmed(the amount of glitches are the biggest clue)... I'm not completely sure, but that might be the reason for the 3 year gap between the Japanese and international releases(well, that and using the revamped graphics of the third Japanese version).

The newest Nintendo Power is out and talks about Pokemon Black and White(well, it's pretty close to release, so no surprise there).

I need to change "Gochiruzeru" to "Gothitelle" in my sig, since that name is confirmed.

Dragon Quest 6 is in it too, you probably saw that while looking through.(Kinda funny since I'm getting games)

Yeah, I didn't buy it but I did look through it, mainly just the Pokemon coverage. Still thinking about who I'm gonna use on my team. Darmanitan and Serperior are definite, and maybe that one that looks like a robot with a blue cap?

No, all I remember about the one I remember is that the shiny version is red as opposed to regularly blue. Lemme check Serebii or wherever...

Edit: http://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/625.shtml

Turns out I was wrong, the shiny version is blue while the regular is red. Saw him in I think it was an OU battle on YouTube and thought he was cool, but now that I saw his base stats... a little too slow for me.

I went to Serebiiforums and looked through the 5th gen board, other's mentioned that Serebii dropped by Bulbagarden and talked shortly about it(I think Archaic, the admin for the wiki site, used to be apart of the help on Serebii's site).

Judging by what I seen, the list is far more likely to be true. I think it popped up shortly before the official site's update.

This would also mean that Serebii is avoiding posting them(to keep from getting another C/D letter, the other was from with Melkor's leaks that were up a couple of days before, even Melkor wasn't supposed to leak them). He does know the list too.

I have an idea for Bliztle/Zebstrika, although it will have to be a girl to match up well.

Gothitelle can be male as well as female, having the drop a Bridget on them trope(If you've played or heard enough about the Guilty Gear series, you'll know this one), so for a male Bridget would be a funny name. But names like Hazuki, Dora(from the webcomic Questionable Content) and Misa(Or L, another name for a male) would be good for a female Gothitelle.

I have an idea for Bliztle/Zebstrika, although it will have to be a girl to match up well.

Gothitelle can be male as well as female, having the drop a Bridget on them trope(If you've played or heard enough about the Guilty Gear series, you'll know this one), so for a male Bridget would be a funny name. But names like Hazuki, Dora(from the webcomic Questionable Content) and Misa(Or L, another name for a male) would be good for a female Gothitelle.

Not heard much about Guilty Gear, so I don't know that trope. But "L".... as in Light Yagami's rival from Death Note?

It's a Death Note reference, so yes(although I was thinking more of the original L who was a major sugar addict).

I'll give a you quick description of the Bridget trope. Guilty Gear, a fighting game, has a pretty unusual cast of characters. One of them, Bridget, looks like a girl in a nun habit and wears a blue outfit. Bridget is a guy though, the game's instructions and story don't hide this(this thought has required brain bleach for some people, seen others play the game, but didn't see the instructions).

On another note, I played Cleopatra Fortune on my Taito Legends 2 collection, made it up to level 49 on one credit. Also saw a picture of Patra-Ko(these show up when getting perfects) that I never got before, I did see it on a Youtube vid of the Japanese version previously.

It's a Death Note reference, so yes(although I was thinking more of the original L who was a major sugar addict).

I'll give a you quick description of the Bridget trope. Guilty Gear, a fighting game, has a pretty unusual cast of characters. One of them, Bridget, looks like a girl in a nun habit and wears a blue outfit. Bridget is a guy though, the game's instructions and story don't hide this(this thought has required brain bleach for some people, seen others play the game, but didn't see the instructions).

On another note, I played Cleopatra Fortune on my Taito Legends 2 collection, made it up to level 49 on one credit. Also saw a picture of Patra-Ko(these show up when getting perfects) that I never got before, I did see it on a Youtube vid of the Japanese version previously.

I just know L as the guy who Light was trying to overcome by doing math problems with his right hand and writing names with his left. And by taking a potato chip and eating it.

Hmm.... so Bridget is a crossdresser. Just like Instructor Mooselini... (From Parappa, she wears a skirt but has antlers, which only male moose have.)

Hyadain! I've seen some of his other songs on youtube as well, mainly Dragon Quest ones(which have been posted on Woodus before). Interestingly enough the DQ mascot popped up in that video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx2UM6-_iOU

I finally got all the type damage reducing berries(was missing one, kept reseting until I got it. It was the Shuca berry) bought by my character's mom in the game for saving money, now I've stopped having her save money.

Will post move sets on each of my mons later, will be battling the E4.

And, yeah... it wouldn't hurt to start a seperate thread for these types of vids, but it doesn't bother me that you're posting them here.

Yeah, I need it for HM purposes, which is annoying to some extent(For instance, I'll have to teach Meganium Rock Climb later on, but this way I'll have all the HMs needed for Mt. Silver). This way I won't have to swap out main team members for the most part, nothing more annoying than having main members miss out on experience points to gain levels. After everything is cleared, I'll touch up their move pool.

Good thing I have Ampharos for Electric moves, I had to temporarily teach Ampharos Rock Smash so I wouldn't have to do two trips through Victory Road, then deleted it afterward, I've kept Strength on it though(due to overworld uses). I also tested Hidden Power on Meganium, Espeon and Ampharos; since they were the ones that could benefit from it the most.

Meganium's hidden power type is Steel, which is not very useful(Fire would have been the best in this case). Rock is already weak to grass(Which is STAB with Meganium's type) and Ice is the only other type weak to steel and most Ice types in this game are either part Water(which neutralizes Ice's weakness to it) and Ground(which is weak to Grass as well), thank goodness for Earthquake.

Espeon's hidden power type is Psychic of all things, which is redundant. I was hoping for Fighting or Fire.

Ampharos actually got a decent one for an Electric type, Grass. Good for Ground and annoying Water/Ground types, although it's only a temporary move for it until I get another special type move later on.

I did some EV training with my team, but only partially. Meganium mainly for Attack and Special Attack, easy to do with Unowns(Which I defeated 120 of to get 30 points in each offensive stat). Did this to make Meganium more offensively rounded.

Ninetales was trained in Special Attack for around 200 points(giving 50 points to that stat at the start). It's base 81 Special Attack is average zone territory, which is why I did it.

I don't think I did much for Espeon, other than Speed(to help offset the Speed dropping nature abit) and trying to target as many Special Attack Pokemon in trainer battles as possible.

Miltank got trained against Attack EV pokemon for around 200 points, since it's Attack stat is in the average zone like Ninetales's Special Attack.

Starmie did get some Special Attack training early on, around 160 points(40 point boost), I think I had it fighting alot rock and ground types too(mostly for leveling, not really worried about EVs at that point). I probably have a fairly low Speed IV on it at that, still it's Speed is over double it's level(which is good).

I know you weren't. Hidden Power is on Ampharos until Power Gem can be learned(I will get a few uses here and there with it), it's just that Meganium and Espeon don't have alot type attack options on them, so I checked to see if they had anything good HP types.

You did also get me curious to see if some of my Pokemon had more room for EV training.

I've beaten the E4, so I checked to see if Starmie could use any Carbos, 3 was it. But now I going to see if I can get alittle more speed with 4 of my team members(I could trying with Meganium and Ampharos too, but I've had them longer than anyone else, so I'm not sure if their EVs are maxed out yet. Shame I don't have EV reducing berries right now).

I know you weren't. Hidden Power is on Ampharos until Power Gem can be learned(I will get a few uses here and there with it), it's just that Meganium and Espeon don't have alot type attack options on them, so I checked to see if they had anything good HP types.

You did also get me curious to see if some of my Pokemon had more room for EV training.

I've beaten the E4, so I checked to see if Starmie could use any Carbos, 3 was it. But now I going to see if I can get alittle more speed with 4 of my team members(I could trying with Meganium and Ampharos too, but I've had them longer than anyone else, so I'm not sure if their EVs are maxed out yet. Shame I don't have EV reducing berries right now).

I was gonna use EV-reducing berries on my Togekiss, but I just decided to train another Togekiss since my other one had a bad nature and Hustle instead of Serene Grace. Actually, I just shoved Togekiss somewhere in my box and never trained a second one like I was going to....

Sometimes they miss it though, it mainly depends on whether or not some troll or someone who just likes to report(a big problem is that Youtube will remove first and not look to see what they're removing, this happened with some LP'ers like Chuggacconroy. LP's of video games are actually under fair use on the site, he did get his account back though).

Sometimes they miss it though, it mainly depends on whether or not some troll or someone who just likes to report(a big problem is that Youtube will remove first and not look to see what they're removing, this happened with some LP'ers like Chuggacconroy. LP's of video games are actually under fair use on the site, he did get his account back though).

I like watching LP's of video games. A few months ago I came across one for the Game Boy version of Home Alone. I could never get past the second level of that game, but the guy who uploaded his complete playthrough actually explained what he was doing in order to get past all the obstacles, which could be helpful tips. I haven't had time to try any of them myself though.

They're dropping by Indy on the 19th. I actually have Saturday off, so I'm toying with the idea of going.

Edit: Just did a Lucky Star character quiz(it only covers the girls, but I didn't mind).

What it said:

You are Konata. You are video game & manga addicted. You are technically considered a geek but you are a very determined one if you put your mind to the test. You like to bug other people & love to scare the people who get scared really easily. You have such a dirty mind that it is easily shown everytime the subject of an adult game is brought up. That dirty trait was influenced by your father. You are easily distracted when you're trying to study & are too lazy to put effort into your work but if there's something you want, you find a way to get it. Since your mother died when you were very young, you do all the house work & take a lot of responsibility with your house work but not homework.

They're dropping by Indy on the 19th. I actually have Saturday off, so I'm toying with the idea of going.

Edit: Just did a Lucky Star character quiz(it only covers the girls, but I didn't mind).

What it said:

You are Konata. You are video game & manga addicted. You are technically considered a geek but you are a very determined one if you put your mind to the test. You like to bug other people & love to scare the people who get scared really easily. You have such a dirty mind that it is easily shown everytime the subject of an adult game is brought up. That dirty trait was influenced by your father. You are easily distracted when you're trying to study & are too lazy to put effort into your work but if there's something you want, you find a way to get it. Since your mother died when you were very young, you do all the house work & take a lot of responsibility with your house work but not homework.

Mall tour? Can't say I've heard of it, but the nearest mall that would be big enough to have it is a 2-hour drive. And if I took that quiz, I would definitely be Konata too. Although I don't think I'm as perverted as she is...

Not Pokemon related, although it's in the same issue as Pokemon B/W(and DQ6's review). I seen a review for Giana Sisters DS, I've been wanting to get this game for awhile and now I won't have to import it looks like.

That's going by Japan's release of Red and Green in 1996, another interesting thing is that the creator was working on the game since around 1990(at that time he called it Capsule Monsters).

Here's a link with the earliest pics: http://www.unseen64.net/2009/02/04/pokemon-red-blue-beta/

We got the first games around 1998 or so here in the US, which you're correct on. Our versions(Red and Blue) are Japan's Red and Green with the graphics from the their third version Blue.

It took awhile for the games to get translated and localized for America, partially due to the fragile coding in them, making it a pretty delicate operation of sorts. There were quite a few glitches and bugs in originals mainly due to how it was coded(Missingno. being one of the most known).

That's going by Japan's release of Red and Green in 1996, another interesting thing is that the creator was working on the game since around 1990(at that time he called it Capsule Monsters).

Here's a link with the earliest pics: http://www.unseen64.net/2009/02/04/pokemon-red-blue-beta/

We got the first games around 1998 or so here in the US, which you're correct on. Our versions(Red and Blue) are Japan's Red and Green with the graphics from the their third version Blue.

It took awhile for the games to get translated and localized for America, partially due to the fragile coding in them, making it a pretty delicate operation of sorts. There were quite a few glitches and bugs in originals mainly due to how it was coded(Missingno. being one of the most known).

It's more of a minor annoyance than anything, but at least I've got it paid for in full. It's just that possibility that an employee might screw up with my held copy in I don't make it in on the day of release.

They open at noon, and that's when my shift starts. I get off at 5, but I rely on buses for transportation and the soonest one at that point is around 5:40(and I won't get downtown until slightly after 6).

It was a night like this forty seven days agoI caught a Ba-a-nette, picked up a Poké Ball to goMagmar was spitting fire, the sky was nice and brightI felt a little tired, so I watched The Price is RightI walked the Bulbasaur, I walked the Bulbasaur

Open the door, get on the floorEverybody walk the BulbasaurOpen the door, get on the floorEverybody walk the